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WBJEE · Maths · Matrices

An \(n \times n\) matrix is formed using 0,1 and -1 as its elements. The number of such matrices which are skew symmetric is

  1. A \(\frac{n(n-1)}{2}\)
  2. B \((n-1)^2\)
  3. C \(2^{n(n-1) / 2}\)
  4. D \(3^{n(n-1) / 2}\)
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(D) \(3^{n(n-1) / 2}\)

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\(3^{\frac{n(n-1)}{2}}\) Each diagonal entry must be ' 0 ' and sum of conjugate elements will be ' 0 '. So, we need to select elements of one side of the diagonal, where each entry has three options.