Chapter 4: Q24. (page 199)

Find the inverse of each matrix, if it exists.24.
$[\begin{matrix} - 3 & - 2 \\ 6 & 4 \end{matrix}]$

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The inverse of the matrix does not exist.

Step by step solution

- Define inverse of a matrix.

For the matrix A,

$A = [\begin{matrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{matrix}]$

The inverse of matrix of the matrix A is:

$A^{- 1} = \frac{1}{a d - b c} [\begin{matrix} d & - b \\ - c & a \end{matrix}]$

where $a d - b c \neq 0$ . $a d - b c$ is the determinant of the matrix A

If $a d - b c = 0$ , the inverse of a matrix doesn not exist.

- Calculate the inverse.

Let A be the matrix $[\begin{matrix} - 3 & - 2 \\ 6 & 4 \end{matrix}]$

That is, $A = [\begin{matrix} - 3 & - 2 \\ 6 & 4 \end{matrix}]$

Comparing with the standard form $A = [\begin{matrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{matrix}]$ , $a = - 3, b = - 2, c = 6, d = 4$ .

Then, $A^{- 1}$ is: $\begin{matrix} A^{- 1} = \frac{1}{a d - b c} [\begin{matrix} d & - b \\ - c & a \end{matrix}] \\ = \frac{1}{(4 \times - 3) - (- 2 \times 6)} [\begin{matrix} 4 & - (- 2) \\ - 6 & - 3 \end{matrix}] \\ = \frac{1}{- 12 + 12} [\begin{matrix} 4 & 2 \\ - 6 & - 3 \end{matrix}] \end{matrix}$

Here,

$\begin{matrix} a d - b c = - 12 + 12 \\ = 0 \end{matrix}$

As $a d - b c = 0$ here, inverse does not exist.

- State the conclusion.

Therefore, the inverse of the matrix $[\begin{matrix} - 3 & - 2 \\ 6 & 4 \end{matrix}]$ does not exist.

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Find the inverse of each matrix, if it exists.24.
$[\begin{matrix} - 3 & - 2 \\ 6 & 4 \end{matrix}]$

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- Define inverse of a matrix.

- Calculate the inverse.

- State the conclusion.

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Find the inverse of each matrix, if it exists.24.[−3−264]

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- Define inverse of a matrix.

- Calculate the inverse.

- State the conclusion.

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Find the inverse of each matrix, if it exists.24.
$[\begin{matrix} - 3 & - 2 \\ 6 & 4 \end{matrix}]$