WK 5

APRIL 2013 51303/SAZ3C

Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 marks

SECTION A — (10 × 2 = 20 marks)

Answer any TEN questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

1. Define relative error.

2. What is the role of convergence for secant method?

3. What is meant by direct method in numerical

method?

4. Define numerical integration.

5. What is the major role of numerical methods?

6. Define an event.

7. State multiplication theorem on probability.

8. If X and Y are independent then what you know

about f ( x , y ) ?

9. Define a random variable.

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10. What is the importance of correlation coefficient?

11. Define the level of significance.

12. Define co-efficient of variation.

SECTION B — (5 × 5 = 25 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

13. Obtain a root of the equation x 3 − 2x − 5 = 0 to 3

significant digits using secant method.

14. Two dice are thrown. What is the probability that

sum of the number appearing on the dice is 8?

15. From the Euler’s method compute y(0.1) from the

dy
equation = x + y with the initial condition
dx
y(0) = 1 .

16. Obtain the two regression lines from the following

data :
X: 6 2 10 4 8
Y: 9 11 5 8 7

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17. Compute the coefficient of correlation between X

and Y series.
X: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Y: 15 16 14 13 11 12 10 8 9

18. Distinguish between correlation and regression

analysis.

19. Discuss on Density and distribution functions.

SECTION C — (3 × 10 = 30 marks)

Answer any THREE questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

20. Solve the following system :

4x + y + z = 4
x + 4 y − 2z = 4
3x + 2 y − 4 z = 6

by Gauss elimination method.

21. Calculate the rank correlation coefficient of the

following data :
X: 80 78 75 75 68 67 60 60
Y: 12 13 14 14 14 16 15 17

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22. The following figure show the distribution of digits

in numbers chosen at random from a telephone
directory.
Digits : 0 1 2 3 4 5
Frequency : 1026 1107 997 996 1075 933
Digits : 6 7 8 9 Total
Frequency : 1107 972 964 853 10000

Test whether the digits may be taken to occur

equally frequently in the directory.

23. Ten individuals chosen at random from a

population and their weight are found to be in
kgs. 63, 63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 69, 70, 70 and 71.
Discuss the suggestion that mean weight in the
universe is 65 kgs. given that for 9 d.f. the value of
students ‘t’ at 5% level of significance is 2.262.

24. Discuss the basic principles and characteristics of

Chi-square test.

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