Elementary Linear Algebra 7th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1-13311-087-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-13311-087-3

Chapter 2 - Matrices - 2.2 Properties of Matrix Operations - 2.2 Exercises - Page 61: 61

Answer

See proof below.

Work Step by Step

Step 1. Let $A_{mn}=[a_{ij}]$ and the zero matrix be denoted by $O_{mn}=[o_{ij}]$ where $i=1,2,3,...m$ and $j=1,2,3,...n$ and $o_{ij}=zero $ for all $i=1,2,3,..m $ and $ j=1,2,3,...n$ $A_{mn}+O_{mn}=[a_{ij}]+[o_{ij}]=[a_{ij}+o_{ij}]=[a_{ij}+0]=[a_{ij}]=A_{mn}$ Step 2. Since $-A=(-1)A=(-1)[a_{ij}]=[(-1)a_{ij}]$ then $A+(-A)=A+(-1)A=[a_{ij}]+[(-1)a_{ij}]=[a_{ij}+(-1)a_{ij}]=[(1+(-1))*a_{ij}]=[0*a_{ij}]=O$ Step 3. To keep that the following statement holds $cA=O_{mn}$ and $c$ is a real number, then it must be: The first case that $c=0$ or For $c\ne 0, $ we see that $c$ has an inverse $1/c$, so $A=(1/c)(cA)=(1/c)*O_{mn}=O_{mn}$
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