GATE Electrical 2018 | Question: 17

Question

Consider a non-singular $2 \times 2$ square matrix $\textbf{A}$. If $\text{trace}(\textbf{A})=4$ and $\text{trace}(\textbf{A}^2)=5$, the determinant of the matrix $\textbf{A}$ is _________ (up to $1$ decimal place).