MS 101 – DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
Lesson 5: Matrices
Activity 5.1: Answer the following activity.
A. Given a matrix A.
0 −9 11 12 20 −11
𝐴 = [9 8 −1 15 24 2 ]
4 17 18 10 −1 3
5 6 19 −4 7 −2
Determine the following:
1. What is the size of matrix A?
2. What are the entries of the fourth row of matrix A?
3. What are the entries of the third column of matrix A?
4. What is the entry in the (3,4) th position of matrix A?
5. What is the entry in the (2,6) th position of matrix A?
B. Determine the kinds of matrices of the following:
Question Answer Question Answer
9 7 9 6 −1 1
1. [ ]
3 −1 6. [1 13 5 23 ]
3 10 1 −7
1 0 −1 0 0
2. [ ]
0 1 7. [ 4 2 0]
6 6 8
7 0 0 −2 −4 −2
3. [0 2 0] 8. [ 0 9 5]
0 0 8 0 0 3
7 0 0 −1 0 0
4. [0 7 0] 9. [ 0 −2 0 ]
0 0 7 0 0 −5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
5. [0 0 0 0 0] 10. [1 0 0 0]
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
C. Find the sum and difference of the following matrices.
No. Matrices 𝐴+𝐵 𝐴−𝐵
4 7 5 −6
1 𝐴=[ ] 𝐵=[ ]
0 4 7 4
1 4 6 6 2 3
2 𝐴=[ ] 𝐵=[ ]
8 7 1 −2 5 7
4 6 3 −9 6 5
3 𝐴 = [8 −2 8 ] 𝐵 = [ 5 2 −4]
1 5 −9 4 8 3
1 4 13 16 1 6
4 𝐴 = [6 8 12 ] 𝐵 = [ 8 0 −11]
0 10 9 3 5 10
7 −8 −7 0 −2 7
D. Given the following information below, Solve for the following: 𝑟 = 4 𝑠 = −2
4 7 5 −6 1 4 6 6 2 3
𝐴=[ ] 𝐵=[ ] 𝐶=[ ] 𝐷=[ ]
0 4 7 4 8 7 1 −2 5 7
Question Answer
1. 𝑠𝐴
2. 𝑟𝐷
3. (𝑟 + 𝑠)𝐴
4. 𝑟(𝐴 + 𝐵)
5. 𝑠(𝐶 + 𝐷)