Math 315 Review Exercise - to be done at the end of Chapter 3.
 

The statements below belong to two groups.In each group, all of the statements are equivalent to one another.Write the statements in the correct group.In all of the statements, A is a square n × n matrix.

 
 
A is nonsingular.
A is singular.
The columns of A are linearly dependent.
The columns of A are linearly independent. 
The columns of A span R^n.
The subspace spanned by the columns of A is not all of R^n.
Ax=0 has only the trivial solution x=0.
Ax=0 has an infinite number of solutions x.
There is a b in R^n such that Ax=b has no solution x.
For all b in R^n, Ax=b has a solution x.
A is row equivalent to a matrix with a row of zeros.
A is row equivalent to a nonsingular matrix.
N(A) = {0}.
There are nonzero vectors in N(A).
A has no inverse.
A has an inverse matrix
The dimension of N(A) is greater than 0.
The dimension of the null space of A is 0.
The dimension of the column space of A is n.
The dimension of the column space of A is less than n.
The dimension of the row space of A is n.
The dimension of the row space of A is less than n.

 
 

Group 1                                                                                  Group 2

 

det(A)=0                                                                         det(A) is not = 0