Linear algebra (Osnabrück 2024-2025)/Part I/Exercise sheet 5



Exercise for the break

Determine an equation for the line in that runs through the points and .




Exercises

Solve the following system of inhomogeneous linear equations.


Determine a linear equation for the plane in , where the three points

lie.


Bring the system of linear equations

into a standard form, and solve it.


Solve, over the complex numbers, the linear system of equations


Let be the field with two elements. Solve in the inhomogeneous linear system


Given a complex number

find its inverse complex number with the help of a real system of linear equations, with two equations in two variables.


The field consists of all real numbers of the form with . The inverse element of is .

Solve the following linear system over the field :


Solve the linear system

with the substitution method.


Solve the linear system

with the equating method.


  1. We consider the linear system over , consisting of the two equations

    and

    Determine a linear system that is equivalent to the given system and has the property that all coefficients are integers.

  2. Show that for every system of linear equations over , there exists an equivalent linear system with the property that all coefficients are integers.


Show that, for every linear system over , there exists an equivalent system with the property that the modulus of all coefficients is smaller than .


Show by an example that the linear system given by three equations I, II, III is not equivalent to the linear system given by the three equations I-II, I-III, II-III.


Out of the resources , and , several commodities are produced. The following table shows how much of the resources are needed to produce the commodities (always in suitable units).


a) Establish a matrix that computes, applied to a four-tuple of commodities, the required resources.


b) The following table shows how much of each commodity shall be produced in a month.

What resources are necessary?


c) The following table shows how much of each resource is delivered on a certain day.

What tuples of commodities can be produced from this without waste?


Let

be a diagonal matrix, and let be an -tuple over a field , and let be a tuple of variables. What is specific about the system of linear equations

and how can you solve it?


Solve the linear systems

simultaneously.


A system of linear inequalities is given by

Sketch the solution set of this system of inequalities.


Let

be a system of linear inequalities, whose solution set is a triangle. How does the solution set look, when we replace one inequality by ?


Prove the superposition principle for systems of linear equations.


Determine, in dependence of the parameter , the solution space of the system of linear equations




Hand-in-exercises

Exercise (4 marks)

Solve the following system of inhomogeneous linear equations.


Exercise (3 marks)

Consider in the two planes

Determine the intersecting line .


Exercise (3 marks)

Determine a linear equation for the plane in , where the three points

lie.


Exercise (4 marks)

We consider the linear system

over the real numbers, depending on the parameter . For which does the system of equations have no solution, one solution, or infinitely many solutions?


Exercise (3 marks)

Solve the linear system

with the substitution method.


Exercise (4 (2+2) marks)

A system of linear inequalities is given by

a) Sketch the solution set of this system.

b) Determine the corners of this solution set.



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