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<span class="exam">True or false: If all the entries of a &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">7\times 7</math>&nbsp; matrix &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">A</math>&nbsp; are &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: -4px">7,</math>&nbsp; then &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">\text{det }A</math>&nbsp; must be &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">7^7.</math>
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<span class="exam"> True or false: If &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">A</math>&nbsp; is invertible, then &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">A</math>&nbsp; is diagonalizable.
  
 
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Revision as of 12:15, 9 October 2017

True or false: If    is invertible, then    is diagonalizable.

Solution:  
First, we switch to the limit to so that we can use L'Hopital's rule.
So, we have

       Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \begin{array}{rcl} \displaystyle{\lim_{x \rightarrow \infty}\frac{3-2x^2}{5x^2 + x +1}} & \overset{L'H}{=} & \displaystyle{\lim_{x \rightarrow \infty}\frac{-4x}{10x+1}}\\ &&\\ & \overset{L'H}{=} & \displaystyle{\frac{-4}{10}}\\ &&\\ & = & \displaystyle{-\frac{2}{5}}. \end{array}}

Final Answer:  
       False

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