KQ1223 Sem 2 20202021

Revision for Week 14

1. A country is divided into three demographic regions. It is found that each year 5% of the residents
of region 1 move to region 2, and 5% move to region 3. Of the residents of region 2, 15% move to
region 1 and 10% move region 3. And of the residents of region 3, 10% move to region 1 and 5%
move to region 2.
(a) Find the transition matrix of this phenomena.
(b) Compute the steady-state probabilities for this three states Markov process.
(c) What percentage of the population resides in each of the three regions after a long period of
time?

2. In a laboratory experiment, a mouse can choose one of two food types each day, type I or type II.
Records show that if the mouse choose type I on a given day, then there is a 75% chance that it
will choose type I the next day, and if it chooses type II on one day, then there is a 50% chance that
it will choose type II the next day.
(a) Find a transition matrix for this phenomenon.
(b) If the mouse chooses type I today, what is the probability that it will choose type I two days
from now?
(c) If the mouse chooses type II today, what is the probability that it will choose type II three days
from now?
(d) If there is a 10% chance that the mouse will choose type I today, what is the probability that it
will choose type I tomorrow?

3 (a) Find an orthogonal change of variables that eliminates the cross-product terms in the quadratic
form Q, and express Q in terms of the new variables.

7 x12  6 x22  5 x32  4 x1 x2  4 x2 x3

(b) Identify the conic section represented by the equation by rotating axes to place the conic in
standard position. Find an equation of the conic in the rotated coordinates and find the angle of
rotation.
8 x 2  16 xy  4 y 2  96  0.
4. (a) Using the power series representation

1 2 1 3 1
ey  1 y  y  y  K   yn
2! 3! n 0 n ! ,
find a power series representation for the function:
f  x    e 4 x dx, f  0  0
.

(b) Find the interval and radius of convergence for the following power series:

 100 
n


  x  7
n

n 1 n!

5. Find the radius of convergence and the interval of convergence.

  2k  1 !
 x  5
k
 4
(a) k 1 k
 xk
  1
k 1

(b) k 1 k .