04 Homework
04 Homework
04 Homework
Exercise 4.1: Find a vector ~v ∈ R3 such that the following three vectors form a basis of R3
1 −2
~u1 = −1 , ~u2 = 2, and ~v ,
3 −5
and compute the value of the Cosine of the angle between ~u1 and ~u2 .
Exercise 4.2: Compute the values of the following products if they exist:
* 2 4+
2
3 −4
1 2 1
and
3 , 5 , 3 4 5 6 , 1 5
4 0 2
−1 6 −1 −2 2
Exercise 4.3: Professor Dumbledore from the university of Hogwarts writes his oce and home phone
number as a 5×1-matrix O and as an 1×5-matrix H , respectively. As professor for transguration
he enjoys any possibility to rearrange and transform objects. Help him compute det(OH).
Homework Assignment:
and determine the value of the Cosine of the angle between ~v1 and ~v2 .
Problem 4.2: Compute the following products of matrices wherever possible. In the cases where you
can not multiply the matrices, justify your decision.
0 2 6 −6 3 2 5 4 5 −5
a) c)
−2 −5 3 0 2 3 1 5 −1 6
3 6
10 2 −7 −2 4 −1 8 −6 −2 −3 −8 10
b)
4 9 0 −8 −9 5 d) 9 −7 −3 5 −3 −5
8 −4 2 0 10 9 −1 8
Problem 4.3: Leontief Input-Output Models. Suppose we have 2 factories and consumers. There
is consumer demand for the products of the factories. In addition, each factory needs products
from their own factory and the other factories in order to produce their product. We would like
to nd the output level for each factory so that all the demands are met with no product left
over. Let d~ = (d1 , d2 )T be the consumer demand vector for the products. Let ~x = (x1 , x2 ) be the
output vector of the two factories. We measure the demand and output in terms of units (which
could be GEL). Let ai,j be the number of units that factory i sends to factory j for each unit
that factory j produces. Let A = (ai,j ) be a 2 × 2-matrix.
This economic situation leads to the following system of equations
x1 = a1,1 x1 + a1,2 x2 + d1
x2 = a2,1 x1 + a2,1 x2 + d2
Question: Compute the output vector ~x = (x1 , x2 ) for these two factories so that the demands
of both the facilities and the consumers are satised.