University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Assignment # 02

Subject: Numerical Analysis Class: 2K18

Total Marks: 10 Last date of submission: 9th March 2020

1) Find a polynomial :

x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
f(x) -30 -12 0 3 4 5 10 19 38 69 125

2) The data points are given below:

x 45 46 50 55 60 65
y 2.8710 y 2.4040 2.0830 1.8620 1.7120

In the above table obtain the value of .

3) In the table given below the values of are consecutive terms of series of which the number 21.6 is the 6 th
term. Find first and 10th term of series.

x 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
y 2.7 6.4 12.5 21.6 34.3 51.2 72.9

4) Apply Newton’s forward differences interpolation to find a polynomial of degree four or less which takes
the values of and as shown in data below:

x 1 2 3 4 5
y 1 -1 1 -1 1

5) From the following table, find the number of students who

(i) Obtained less than 45 marks.
(ii) Obtained more than 65 marks.

Marks 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

No. of 30 41 52 36 31
students

6) Find the number of students from the following data who secured marks not more than 45.

Marks 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

No. of 35 48 70 40 22
students
7) Find the maximum value of , by using data given below:

x 0 1 2 3 4
y 0 0.25 0 2.25 16

8) The population of a town is as follow:

x 1941 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991

year
y 20 24 29 36 46 51
population in
thousands

Estimate the population increase during the period 1946 to 1976.

9) Given that:

x 0 1 2 3 4
y 1 2 9 28 65

Find the value of .

10) Given that , , , . Find using

.