Thread: help with linear systems

i have a midterm on all this stuff on monday. the professor posted a practice exam without solutions, and i cant seem to remember how to do the first 2 problems.. id be soooooooooooooooooo appreciative if someone can walk me through them. heres the link to them, as im sure itll be easier to read than me posting them here.

http://www.math.uconn.edu/~mckenna/2410f09/exam209f.pdf

The problem is just routine knowing the corresponding theory. At any case, some hints:



has a positive and a negative eigenvalue.