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Matrix Algebra: Basic Matrix Laws

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1. Given the matrices A, B and C, compute:

(a) AC + BC (It is much faster if you use the distributive law for matrices first.)
(b) 2A - 3A
(c) Perform the Boolean Product operation on the following zero-one matrices.

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2. We know that matrix algebra behaves similar to (but not exactly the same as) regular algebra. The statements in parts a and b illustrate a couple of the differences between the two structures.

Let A and B be arbitrary n x n matrices whose entries are real numbers.

(a) Use basic matrix laws only to expand (A + B)^2. Explain all steps.
(b) Is (A - B)(A + B) = A^2 - B^2 ? Explain as you did in part (a).

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1 (a)
Using distributive law for matrices, we can rewrite "AC + BC" as "(A + B)C". This will reduce two matrix multiplication and one matrix addition operations to one matrix multiplication and one matrix addition operations.

(A + B)
= | 0 0 0 |
| 0 3 0 |
| 1 0 1 |

Thus,
(A + B)C
= | 0 0 |
|-3 0 |
| 3 -1 |

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