ZERO LEVEL Determinant-1

1. Solve the following determinant : 7. Solve the following :

2 4 3 8 1  2
(a) 6 8 (b)  1 0 (c) | 2 | (d) | –5 | 1 log x y log x z
log y x 1 log y z  2 1
(a) (b)
logz x logz y 1  1 2
1 2 0 0
(e) 3 4 (f) 0 0

2. Solve the following determinant : 31 37 92 12 22 32

22 3 2 42
(c) 31 58 71 (d) 2
2 1 4 1 1 1 0 1 2 31 105 24 3 42 52
(a) 5 3 2 (b) 1 2 3 (c) 3 4 5
4 1 2 1 3 4 6 7 8
1 x 1 1
8. Find roots of the equation 1 1  x 1 0.
1 5 8 0 1 4 0 1 1 1 1 1 x
(d) 0 0 0 (e)  1 0 8 (f) 1 0 1
2 4 6 3 6 0 1 1 1
x 1 x 2
3. Solve the following determinant : 9. Find roots of the equation 3 2 1 0
2 5 7
5 1 0 8 1 1 1 1
11 2 4 0 2 3 4 5 abc 2a 2a
(a) 1  1 2 2 (b) 1 4 7 8 2b b  c  a 2 b
3 6 1 0 1  4 6 9 10. Solve
2c 2c c ab

1 4 9 16 0 0 0 1 1 i 1 i i
4 9 16 25 5 1 0 6 1  i i 1  i
11. Solve
(c) 9 16 25 36 (d) 2 3 1 0 i 1 i 1 i
16 25 36 49 4 0 1 1

4. Find cofactor and Minor 1 5 

(a) In question 2(a), cofactor of 3 is ....... 12. Solve loge e 5 5
(b) In question 2(c), minor of 5 is ....... log10 10 5 e
(c) In question 2(e), cofactor of 6 is ....... 13. Solve for x
(d) In question 1(e), cofactor of –2 is .......
x 1 3 5
(e) In question 3(a), cofactor of a23 is ....... 2 x2 5 0
5. Find the ratio of cofactor is to minor of aij , where i and j 2 3 x4
denotes row and column.
6. Solve the following : 1  2
 2 1
bc a a 14. Solve
2 1 
(a) b c  a b
c c ab
1 x y
2
15. Solve 2 sin x  2x sin y  2y 
1 a a
3 cos x  3 x cos y  3 y
1 b b2
(b)
1 c c2
x x2 1 x3
2
b c 2
a 2
a2 16. If y y 2 1  y 3  0 then find xyz
b2 c 2  a2 b2 z z2 1  z3
(c)
c2 c 2
a  b2
2

19 17 15
1 1 1 17. Solve 9 8 7
a
(d) 3 b c 1 1 1
a b3 c3

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 a x p a p x 22. If a1, a2, a3 , .......... an , ........ are in geometric progression
18. If b y q  k , then find b q y . and ai  0 for each i, then find the value of determinant
c z r c r z
log an log an  2 log an  4
a b c ka kb kc log an  6 log an  8 log an 10
19. If   x y z , then find kx ky kz .
log an 12 log an 14 log an 16
p q r kp kq kr
23. If value of a third order determinant is 11, then the value
of the square of the determinant formed by the cofactors
265 240 219 will be k. Find k.
20. Solve 240 225 198
219 198 181 ab bc c a a b c
24. If b  c c  a a  b  k b c a , then find k.
N c a ab bc c a b
21. If  Un  K then find the value of
n 1 1 a 1 1
25. For non-zero a, b, c if   1 1 b 1  0 , then
n 1 5 1 1 1 c
Un  n 2 2N  1 2N  1
n3 3N 2 3N 1 1 1
find the value of   .
a b c

Answers
25. – 1 24. 2 23. 22. 0 21. 0 20. 0 19.

18. –k 17. 0 16. –1 15. 14. 0 13. 1, – 9 12. 0

11. 10. 9. 31/10 8. 0, – 3 (d) –8 (c) 0 (b) 0 7. (a) 0

(d) (c) (b) 6. (a) 4abc

5. (e) –126 (d) – 3 (c) –4 4. (a) –12 (b) 6 (d) – 13 (c) 0 (b) 26 3. (a) 558
(f) 1 (e) 0 (d) 1 (c) 0 (b) – 1 2. (a) –22 (f) 0 (e) 10 (d) – 5 (c) 2 (b) 8 1. (a) –8

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