The Copperbelt University

School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Department of Mathematics

MA 411: Numerical Analysis and Statistics

March 19, 2023

@Assignment @ Academic year: 2022/23

(1). Given that

1  r2 
V = +h
2 h
and the error in V is at the most 0.4%, find the error allowable in r and h when
r = 5.1cm and h = 5.8cm.

(2). Find the relative and Absolute error of the irrational number π = 3.14159 · · · .

(a) Truncated to three decimal digits.

(b) Rounded off to three decimal digits.

x2 x3
(3). Find the value of ex using series expansion ex = 1 + x + + + · · · for x = 0.5
2! 3!
with an absolute error less than 0.005.

(4). If R = 10 x3 y 2 z 2 and errors in x , y , z are 0.03, 0.01, 0.01 and 0.02. Calculate
the Absolute and Relative percentage error in R.

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 (5). Determine the constants a and b by the Least-square method such that y = aebx fits
the following

x 1 1.2 1.4 1.6

y 40.170 73.196 133.372 243.02

(6). If V (km/hr) and R(kg/ton) are related by a relation of type R = a + bV 2 , find by

the method of Least squares, a and b with the help of the following table:

V 10 20 30 40 50
R 8 10 15 21 30

(7). Find the bet values of a and b so that y = a + bx fits the data given the following
table below:

x 0 1 2 3 4
y 1 2.9 4.8 6.7 8.6

(8). Apply Crout’s(Cholesky’s) method to solve the equations:

3x + 2y + 7z = 4
2x + 3y + z = 5
3x + 4y + z = 7

(9). Solve by Jacobi’s iteration method , the following systems of equation:

20x + y − 2z = 17
3x + 20y − z = −18
2x − 3y + 20z = 25

(10). Apply Gauss-seidal iteration method to solve the equations

20x + y − 2z = 17
3x + 20y − z = −18
2x − 3y + 20z = 25

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(11). Obtain using Jacob’s method, all the eigen values and eigen vectors of the following
matrices:

(a)  
1 1 0.5
A= 1 1 0.25 
0.5 0.25 2

(b) √
 
√1 2 √2
B= 2 √3 2
2 2 1

(12). Given the values u(x, y) on the boundary of the square in the figure below. Evaluate
u(x, y) satsifying the Laplace equation ∇2 u = 0 at the pivotal points of this figure by
Gauss method(Do 2 iterations).

(13). Solve the poisson equation uxx + uyy = −81xy, 0 < x < 1, 0 < y < 1 given that
u(0, y) = 0, u(x, 0) = 0, u(1, y) = 100 and h = 13 .

(14). Determine the largest eigen value and the corresponding eigen vector of the matrix.

(a)  
1 6 1
A= 1
 2 0
0 0 3

(b)  
15 −4 −3
A = −10 12 −6 
−20 4 −2

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(15). A die is thrown 8 times and it is required to find the probability that 3 will show

(i) Exactly 2
(ii) At least seven times
(iii) At least once

(16). The probability that machines A will be performing an usual functions in 5 years
1
time is , while the probability that machines B will still be operating usefully at
2
1
the end of the same period is . Find the probability in the following cases that in 5
3
years time:

(i) Both machines will be performing an usual function.

(ii) Neither machines will be operating.
(iii) Only machine B will be operating.
(iv) At least one of the machines will be operating.

(17). The time in seconds that a random sample of engineering students took to complete
a task is as follows:

20 37 14 37 27 44
14 40 27 25 27 25
37 20 29 37 29 25
27 27 27 20 25 56

(i) Find the mean time

(ii) Find the standard deviation
(iii) Find the coefficient of variation

(18). Consider the following frequency distribution for a sample of 40 observations:

Class Frequency
0-4 5
5-9 8
10-14 11
15-19 9
20-24 7

(i) Rewrite frequency distribution in terms of class bounderies instead of class

limits.
(ii) Compute the sample mean.
(iii) Find the standard mean deviation.
(iv) Find the median and mode.
(v) The inter quatile deviation.

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(19). The following shows the age distribution in years of 40 youths at a youth rally

Age in Years (x) Frequency

7-12 4
12-17
17-22 15
22-27
27-32 5
Total 40

Given that the median age is 19.8 years:

(i) Find the missing frequencies to the nearest whole number.

(ii) Find the mode of this distribution.
(iii) How many youths are older than 17 years?
(iv) Include a column for relative frequencies.

(20). The number of calls recieved at a telephone center follows a poisson distribution where
probability of recieving no call, on a particular day is 0 · 1353. What is the probability
of reciving more than 3 calls in 2 days.

(21). A Professor sees students during regular office hours. Time spent with students
follows an exponential distribution with a mean of 5 minutes

(i) Scketch the graph of exponential distribution

(ii) Find the probability that a given student spends fewer than 10 minutes with
the Professor.
(iii) Find the probability that a given student spend between 10 and 20 minutes with
the Professor.

(22). The discrete random variable X has probabilty function

 x
2
f or x = 1, 2, 3



 5
P (X = x) =

 C, f or x = 4

0, elsewhere

Where C is a constant. Determine the value of C

(23). Given the probability density function of the uniform distribution,


 1 , x=a⩽x⩽b
f (x) = b − a
0, elsewhere

(b − a)2
Show that the variance is given by V ar(x) =
12

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(24). The management of a large hospital states that the mean age of patients is 55 years.
Records of a random sample of 100 patients given a mean of 48.4 years. Using a
population standard deviation of 18 years, test at the 5% significance level whether
there is evidence that the manager’s statement is incorrect. State clearly your null
and alternative hypothesis.

(25). A bag contains 5 blue marbles, 3 yellow marbles and 2 white marbles. Two marbles
are drawn from the bag, the first marble not being replaced before the second marble
is drawn. What is the probability that

(i) Both marbles are the same colour

(ii) Both marbles are different colour
(iii) At least one marble is blue?

(26). The height of women in Choma district are distributed with mean µ cm and standard
deviation δ cm. On the basis of the results obtained from a random sample of 100
woman from the district, the 95% confidence interval for mean µ was calculated and
fount to be (197 · 24cm, 199 · 2cm). Calculate the 98% confidence interval for the
mean.

(27). Analysis of the rate of turnover of employees by a personnel manager produced the
following table showing the lenth of stay of 200 people who left the company for other
employment

Lenth of employment (years)

Grade 0-2 2-5 >5
Managerial 10 11 16
Skilled 21 28 21
Unskilled 30 23 40

Test at 5% significance level, wether the length of employment is independent of

Grade.

This Assignment should be submitted on a Monday first week of term three.

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