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If A=[aij]3x3 is any orthogonal matrix then which of the following cannot be true.      |A| = 1|A| = -1|A|=0None of these

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\(\because\) A is orthogonal matrix.

\(\therefore \) ATA = A.AT = I, where I is identify matrix.

⇒ |ATA| = | I |

⇒ |ATA| |A| = 1    (\(\because\) | I | = 1)

⇒ |A| |A| = 1        (\(\because\) |ATA| = |A|)

⇒ |A|2 = 1

⇒ |A| = -1 or |A| = 1

Hence, |A| = 0 can not be true for an orthogonal matrix A.



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