Math Camp, Summer 2016

Review Exam Name:

Show all work clearly and in order. Circle your final answers.
Suggested duration: 3 hours . (4 hours is okay as well :)

1) Find the rational roots, if any, of the following

a) 2x3 + x2 + x 1 = 0
b) 2x3 12x2 + 22x 12 = 0

"
5 1
# 1 2
0 6 6
2) Given A = , and B = 1 1

1 2 1
0 3
a) Calculate AB.
b) Calculate B 0 A0
" # " #
1 3
3) Given u = , and v =
2 1
a) Calculate 2u v and show this graphically.
b) Calculate u0 v and uv 0

1 0 4
4) Let A = 1 1 6

1 2 3
a) What is rank(A)?
b) Is A nonsingular?
c) Does A1 exist? If so, calculate A1 .
d) Is A symmetric?
e) Is A idempotent?
f) Is there any non-trivial solution to Ax = 0 system? (x is a vector of unknowns)

5) Prove whether the following sets of vectors are linearly dependent or independent.

1 1 5
a) 2 , 3 , 5

0 1 3

1 2 15 5 2

2 3 5 2 4
b)
3
,
1,
, ,
3 3

1

4 6 0 1 0
6) Given the following equations, find z by using Cramers rule.
2x + y z = 1
xz =2
y + z = 3

x2 +2
7) Let f (x) = x1 . Calculate the following:
a) lim f (x)
x1
b) lim f (x)
x
c) lim f (x)
x
d) Is f (x) differentiable at x = 1?

x2 3x+2
8) Let f (x) = 2x2 2x4
. Calculate the following:
a) lim f (x)
x2
b) lim f (x)
x

9) Let f (x) = 3 |x + 2|.

a) Is f (x) continous at x = 2?
b) Is f (x) differentiable at x = 2?

10) Calculate dy/dx for the following:

ln(x2 +3)
a) y = 2x3x
2 +3
b) y = (x3 + 1)2x

11) Use Jacobian determinant to test the functional dependence between the following pair of functions:
f (x1 , x2 ) = 2x31 + 3x1 x2 5x2 , and g(x1 , x2 ) = x21 5x1 x2

12) Calculate dy/dw for the following:

a) y = 2x31 + x1 x2 2x22 , where x1 = 3w2 and x2 = 5w
b) y 3 + 2yw2 yw + w = 0

y
13) Given the following three equations, calculate z at the point (x, y, w; z) = (0, 1, 2; 3):
F 1 (x, y, w; z) = 2x2 3yw + 2z = 0
F 2 (x, y, w; z) = y 3 + 3w z 4 = 0
F 3 (x, y, w; z) = xw + 4y z 2 + 5 = 0

Bonus Question: Prove the following:

If A is an n n matrix that is idempotent and invertible, then A is the identity.