BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI
WILP
SS ZC416, MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATION FOR DATA SCIENCE
ASSIGNMENT-1
Weightage: 10%
Instructions
1. Submissions beyond the 26th of Feb, 2024, 23.59 hrs, would not be graded.
2. Assignments sent via email will not be accepted.
3. Copying is strictly prohibited. Adoption of unfair means would lead to
disciplinary action.
4. Assignments must be scanned as PDF documents and uploaded on our LMS.
The file name should be your bitsid.pdf (example 2024MT12561.pdf).
Answer all questions
1. Determine the values of k so that the following system Ax=b has a unique solution,
where A , x,b are the coefficient matrix, variable vector, and constant vector, respectively,
in the following system
x−2 y=1
x− y + kz=−2
ky + 4 z=6 .
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Assume a permissible value for k, and show that the column space of Axb is a subspace
of the column space of A .
2. a. Find the angle between A= (23 ) (
1
−1
, B=
0 −1
2 3 ) in the vector space of 2 ×2 real
matrices with an inner product defined by ⟨ A , B ⟩=tr ( BT A ).
b. Is ⟨ u , v ⟩ = x 1 y 1 x 2 y 2 inner product on R2, where u=( x 1 , x 2) , v=( y 1 , y 2 ) ?
Justify.
3. Let V be the set of all positive real numbers with the operations defined as
x ⊕ y=xy
and
α ⊙ x =x , α ∈ R.
α
Is V a vector space? Justify your answer.
4. Generate a dataset (integer values range is 100 to 500) using the random number
generator with 50 samples and five features. Use the concepts of rank and nullity of a
matrix to identify redundant samples and correlated variables in your dataset.
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