Unit – V

1. (a) Explain the curve fitting of the straight line by the least square method.

(b) By the method of least squares, find the straight line that best fits the following data.

x 1 2 3 4 5
y 14 27 40 55 68

2. (a) Find the curve fitting of the parabola by least square method.

(b) Fit second degree polynomial to the following data .

X 10 12 15 23 30
y 14 17 23 25 21

3. (a) Explain the least square principle. Hence fit a straight line to the following data

x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
y 9 8 10 12 11 13 14 16 5

(b) Fit the curve y = aebx to the following data.

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
y 20 30 52 77 135 211 326 550 1052

4. (a) Fit a straight line to the following data

x 0 1 2 3 4
y 1 1.8 3.3 4.5 6.3
(b) By the method of least squares fit a parabola of the form y = a + bx +cx2 for the following data

x 2 4 6 8 10
y 3.07 12.85 31.4 57.38 91.29
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