Ministry of Higher Education

Higher Technological Institute

10th of Ramadan City – 6th of October Branch
Department of Basic Sciences

Term: Jan. / May 2022 Code: MTH 103

Subject: Numerical Methods Group: 1 & 2 & 91 & 92

Assignment (1)
"All work which you hand in should be your own"

[I] Use the Bisection method to find solutions accurate to within for the following
problems.
a. for
b. for
c. ( ) ( ) for

[II] Use the Newton-Raphson, fixed‐point iteration, and secant methods to determine
solutions accurate to within for the following equations:
a. on [1, 1.8]
b. , for [10.7, 10.92].
c. 2 on [1, 1.3]

[III] Use the Newton-Raphson, fixed‐point iteration, and secant methods to find:

a. The smallest positive root of the equation accurate to within .

b. The smallest negative root in magnitude of the equation
correct to four decimal places.

[IV] Find an approximation to √ correct to within , using the bisection method.

[V] Find the root of the equation in the interval (0, 1) correct to four
decimal places by fixed point iteration method; using the best convergent function from
the following:
x3  2 2
g1 ( x)  , g 2 ( x)  3 7 x  2 , g 3 ( x) 
7 x 7 .
2

………………………………………………………………………………………………. Good Luck