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MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND COMPUTER DERPARTMENT B3001 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS QUESTION ASSIGNMENT 2

7 /9/2011

25 MARKS

INSTRUCTIONS : ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS BELOW.

QUESTION 1

The following points were found empirically. X 2.1 2.4 2.7 2.0 3.3 3.6 y 3.2 2.7 2.9 3.5 4.1 5.2 Use the Trapezoidal rule to estimate
3.6

2.1

dx

QUESTION 2 Use Simpsons rule, taking 6 intervals to find the area under the following curves between x = 0 and x = 3: (i) y = x2 + 2 (ii) y = 2x2 3

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