What is the volume of the rectangular prism?
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A. False. Consider the identity matrix, which is diagonalizable (it's already diagonal) but all its eigenvalues are the same (1).
b. True. Suppose
is the matrix of the eigenvectors of 
, and 
is the diagonal matrix of the eigenvalues of :
Then
In other words, the columns of
are 
, which are identically 
, and these are the columns of 
.
c. False. A counterexample is the matrix
which is nonsingular, but it has only one eigenvalue.
d. False. Consider the matrix
with eigenvalue
and eigenvector 
, where 
. But the matrix can't be diagonalized.
b. True. Suppose
Then
In other words, the columns of
c. False. A counterexample is the matrix
which is nonsingular, but it has only one eigenvalue.
d. False. Consider the matrix
with eigenvalue