Determine as the parameters a,b in RR the rank of the following matrix A=((a+b,a,b),(b,a,0),(a,b,b))

Adison Rogers

Adison Rogers

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2022-11-16

Determine as the parameters a , b R the rank of the following matrix
A = ( a + b a b b a 0 a b b )

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lavarcar2d2

lavarcar2d2

Beginner2022-11-17Added 18 answers

| a + b a b b a 0 a b b | = b | a + b a 1 b a 0 a b 1 | = b | a + b a 1 b a 0 b b a 0 | = b 2 | 1 a 1 b a | = b 3
Hence if b 0, the rank is 3.
If b = 0, consider two cases, a = 0 and a 0. I will leave this to you as an exercise.

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