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W1-2-60-1-6
JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2014/2015
THIRD AND SECOND YEAR EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER
SCIENCE AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCE

SMA 2321 : NUMERICAL ANALYSIS 1

DATE: APRIL 2015 TIME: 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS:
ATTEMPT QUESTION ONE AND ANY OTHER TWO QUESTIONS
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QUESTION ONE [30 MARKS]

(a) Use Newton-Raphson method to find a real root near 2 of the equation x4-
11x+8 accurate to 3 decimal places [7 marks]
(b) Construct a forward difference table for the following polynomial
f (x )= y=x 3 + 2 x +1 for x=1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [5 marks]
(c) Determine the missing entry in the following table

x 0 1 2 3 4
y 1 4 17 -1 97
1−2 x
∫0 e dx
(d) Evaluate the integral taking six intervals by using trapezoidal
rule up to 3 significant figures. [5 marks]
(e) Given f(2)=9, f(6) = 17, find an approximate value of f(5) by the method
of Lagrange’s interpolation . [4 marks]
(f) Find a real root of cosx-3x +5=0 correct to 4 decimal places. [5 marks]
QUESTION TWO[20 MARKS]

(a) Find a root of the equation x6-x-1=0, using bisection method up to the 5th
iteration, accurate to 4 decimal places. [12 marks]
12 dx
∫0 1+x 2
(b) Evaluate by using Simpson’s 1/3 rule taking n=6. [5 marks]
(c) One zero of f(x) = x3+4x4+5x +2=0 is x= -2 . Find the other zeros.
[3 marks]

QUESTION THREE [20 MARKS]

(a) Find a root of x3+x-1=0 by iteration method given that the root lies near 1.
[7 marks]
dy d2 y
(b) From the following table, find the value of and dx dx 2 at the point
x=1.0 using Newtons forward interpolation formula.

x 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5

y 5.4680 5.6665 5.9264 6.2551 6.6601 7.1488

1 1
2
log e ∫0 1+x dx
(c) Find the value of from using Euler –Maclaurin formula
[6
marks]
QUESTION FOUR [20 MARKS]

(a) Find the root of the function

x= ( 1+cos3 x )
correct to 4 decimal places
using Aitken’s iteration method. [11 marks]
(b) The table below shows the values of a polynomial of degree 5. Its given that
f(3) is in error. Correct the error.

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
y 1 2 33 254 1054 3126 7777

[9 marks]