Aug2015numericalmathRESIT

Question 1
4

x =1x

a) i) Show that the equation

[ , ] .

has a root between

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ii) Use the Newton-Raphson method to find this root correct to 9

decimal places and only use 2 iterations.
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b) Use the Lagrangian interpolation to obtain an estimate of
f (0.15)

given

places.

( 0.1,1.641 ) , ( 0.2,1.990 ) , ( 0.3, 1.840 ) , ( 0.4, 1.192 )

to 7 decimal

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Question 2
a) i) Show that the equation
between

f ( x )=ln x8+2 x 2

has a root

[ , ] . Find the root.

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ii) Rearrange the above equation to the form

1
x n+1= 4 ln x n
2

With a suitable starting value, find the root to 3 iterations only.

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b) Estimate

f ( 3.8 )

using the Newton Gregory Backward

differences interpolation formula for

( 1, 0 ) , ( 2, 0.6931 ) , ( 3, 1.0986 ) , ( 4,1.3863 )

to 4 decimal places of accuracy.

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Question 3

a) Solve the following linear systems

5 x +2 y+ z=3, x10 y + z=27, x+ y4 z =4
x= y=z=1

method with

using the Gauss-Seidel

to 4 iterations only and to 8 decimal

places.

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b) Construct the Newton Divided differences table and estimate

f (3.5)

with the following : ( 0, 0 ) , ( 1, 1 ) , ( 2, 8 ) , ( 3,27 ) , ( 4,64 )

to 3 decimal

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Question 4
a) Derive the normal equation for the least square line
y=a+b x

( 1,0.5 ) , ( 2,0.33 ) , ( 3, 0.50 ) , ( 4,1.99 ) , ( 5, 4.17 ) , ( 6,7.01 )

b) Given
known that
where

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x y

ax +by=x

are related by an equation

and b

and it is
2

are constants.

i) Draw a graph and estimate the values of

and

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ii) Find the value of

when

x=5.5

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