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 - 2.3 The Inverse of a Matrix - 2.3 Exercises - Page 73: 64

Answer

(a) the statement is true (b) the statement is false (c) the statement is false

Work Step by Step

(a) the statement is true since $A$ is a nonsingular matrix , then it has the inverse $A^{-1}$ and then $(AA^{-1})^{-1}=I$ implies $(A^{-1})^{-1}A^{-1}=I$ By multiplying with $A$, we have that $(A^{-1})^{-1}A^{-1}A=IA=A$ Thus $(A^{-1})^{-1}I=(A^{-1})^{-1}=A$ Therefore $(A^{-1})^{-1}=A$ (b) the statement is false because the matrix $ \left[\begin {array}{cc} a&b\\ c&d \end{array}\right]$ is invertible if $ad-bc\ne0$ (c) the statement is false because if $A$ is a singular matrix then the linear system has an infinite number of solutions
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