CAIE A-Level Further Math AS 1.4.3 Inverse Matrix Products Questions

Practise expressing inverse matrices as products and using matrices for transformations.

Syllabus
2028–2030
Course
Further Mathematics 9231
Level
AS

Exam points

  • express inverse matrices as products
  • calculate inverses of matrix powers
  • use matrices to represent geometric transformations

CAIE A-Level Further Math AS 1.4.3 Inverse Matrix Products Questions question 1

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The matrix M is given by M=(cos⁡2θ−sin⁡2θsin⁡2θcos⁡2θ)(1k01)\mathbf{M}=\left(\begin{array}{rr}\cos 2 \theta & -\sin 2 \theta \\ \sin 2 \theta & \cos 2 \theta\end{array}\right)\left(\begin{array}{ll}1 & k \\ 0 & 1\end{array}\right), where 0<θ<π0<\theta<\pi and k is a non-zero constant. The matrix M represents a sequence of two geometrical transformations, one of which is a shear.

Write M−1\mathbf{M}^{-1} as the product of two matrices, neither of which is I.

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