If $\left| {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}
  {{a^2}}&{{b^2}}&{{c^2}} \\ 
  {{{(a + \lambda )}^2}}&{{{(b + \lambda )}^2}}&{{{(c + \lambda )}^2}} \\ 
  {{{(a - \lambda )}^2}}&{{{(b - \lambda )}^2}}&{{{(c - \lambda )}^2}} 
\end{array}} \right|$ $ = \,k\lambda \,\,\left| {{\mkern 1mu} {\mkern 1mu} \begin{array}{*{20}{c}}
  {{a^2}}&{{b^2}}&{{c^2}} \\
  a&b&c \\
  1&1&1
\end{array}} \right|,\lambda \, \ne \,0$ then $k$ is equal to

Let $f (x) =$ $\left| {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}{1\, + \,{{\sin }^2}x}&{{{\cos }^2}x}&{4\,\sin \,2x}\\{{{\sin }^2}x}&{1\, + \,{{\cos }^2}x}&{4\,\sin \,2x}\\{{{\sin }^2}x}&{{{\cos }^2}x}&{1\, + \,4\,\sin \,2x}\end{array}} \right|$, then the maximum value of $f (x) =$

If $a+x=b+y=c+z+1,$ where $a, b, c, x, y, z$ are non-zero distinct real numbers, then $\left|\begin{array}{lll}x & a+y & x+a \\ y & b+y & y+b \\ z & c+y & z+c\end{array}\right|$ is equal to

Let $A$ be a $3 \times 3$ matrix with $\operatorname{det}( A )=4$. Let $R _{ i }$ denote the $i ^{\text {th }}$ row of $A$. If a matrix $B$ is obtained by performing the operation $R _{2} \rightarrow 2 R _{2}+5 R _{3}$ on $2 A ,$ then $\operatorname{det}( B )$ is equal to ...... .

If $\left| {\,\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}{{{(b + c)}^2}}&{{a^2}}&{{a^2}}\\{{b^2}}&{{{(c + a)}^2}}&{{b^2}}\\{{c^2}}&{{c^2}}&{{{(a + b)}^2}}\end{array}\,} \right| = k\,abc{(a + b + c)^3}$, then the value of $k$ is

By using properties of determinants, show that:

$\left|\begin{array}{ccc}y+k & y & y \\ y & y+k & y \\ y & y & y+k\end{array}\right|=k^{2}(3 x+k)$