OCR FP1 2009 June — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFP1 (Further Pure Mathematics 1)
Year2009
SessionJune
TopicMatrices

2 The matrices \(\mathbf { A }\) and \(\mathbf { B }\) are given by \(\mathbf { A } = \left( \begin{array} { l l } 3 & 0
0 & 1 \end{array} \right)\) and \(\mathbf { B } = \left( \begin{array} { l l } 5 & 0
0 & 2 \end{array} \right)\) and \(\mathbf { I }\) is the \(2 \times 2\) identity matrix. Find the values of the constants \(a\) and \(b\) for which \(a \mathbf { A } + b \mathbf { B } = \mathbf { I }\).