Amrita School of Engineering
B.Tech. II Semester
23MAT130 - Engineering Mathematics II
Tutorial 4
(Column and Null spaces and Dimension theorem)
1. If A is a 12500×20000 matrix with rank 12000, obtain (i) Nullity of A (ii) Nullity of AT.
2. What is the rank and nullity of
(a) a non-zero, 2×2 singular matrix?
(b) A 7×9 matrix with rank 4.
(c) A 3×2 matrix with two linearly independent rows.
(d) An m×n matrix with all entries as one.
3. For the following matrices,
(i) Obtain a basis for the null space of A.
(ii) Obtain a basis for the column space of A.
(iii) Obtain a basis for the row space of A.
(iv) Obtain the rank and nullity.
1 4 5 6 9
3 −2 1 4 − 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1
3 4 0 1 4 0
A= ,𝐵 = [ ] , 𝐶 = [0 0 1], 𝐷 = [0 1 1 0], 𝐸 = [ ].
− 1 0 − 1 − 2 − 1 6 8 0 2 8 0
0 0 0 2 4 0 2
2 3 5 7 8
1 2 − 1 2
4. Let A = 3 5 0 4 .
1 1 2 0
a. Find bases for the row space and Null space of A.
b. Verify whether every vector in the row space of A is orthogonal to every vector in the null space of
A.
5. If A is a 64×17 matrix of rank 11, how many independent vectors satisfy Ax=0 ? How many
independent vectors satisfy ATy=0 ?
1 1 1
6. If V is the subspace spanned by {(1) , (2) , (5)}, find a matrix A that has V as its row space.
0 0 0
7. (a) Find a set of the vectors that forms a basis for the space spanned by the following vectors,
𝑣1 = (1, −2,0,3), ̅̅̅
̅̅̅ 𝑣2 = (2, −5, −3,6), ̅̅̅
𝑣3 = (0,1,3,0), 𝑣̅4 = (2, −1,4, −7), ̅̅̅
𝑣5 = (5, −8,1,2) .
(b) Express each vector not in the basis as a linear combination of the basis vectors.
8. Explain geometrically the null space of the following matrices:
1 4 0 0 0 0
𝐴=[ ],𝐵 = [ ],𝐶 = [ ]
0 5 0 5 0 0
9. Find the dimensions of
(a) The space of all vectors in R4 whose components add to zero.
(b) The nullspace of the identity matrix.
(c) The space of all skew-symmetric matrices.
10. State True or False:
1. The row vectors of an n×n invertible matrix A form a basis for Rn.
2. The sum of dimensions of left null space of A and column space of A is equal to the number of
columns in A.
3. If an n×n matrix A is invertible, then the nullity of A is zero.