Open University of Mauritius

BSc (Hons) COMPUTER SCIENCE [OUbs033]

EXAMINATION FOR: November - December 2022

MODULE : Computational Mathematics [OUbs033112]

DATE : Thursday 24 November 2022

DURATION : 2 Hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

1. This question paper consists of TEN QUESTIONS.

2. Answer ALL Questions.
3. Graph paper to be provided.
4. Always start a new question on a fresh page.
5. Total marks: 100

This question paper contains 10 questions and 6 pages.

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 ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

QUESTION 1 [6 MARKS]
a) Given 𝑋 follows a Binomial distribution with 𝑛 = 12 and 𝑝 = 0.3, find

(i) 𝑃(𝑋 = 4) (1 mark)

(ii) 𝑃(𝑋 ≤ 2) (1 mark)

b) Given 𝑋 follows a Normal distribution with mean 40 and variance 23, find

(i) 𝑃(𝑋 > 45)

(1 mark)
(ii) 𝑃(𝑋 < 35)
(1 mark)

c) Given 𝑋 follows a Poisson distribution with mean 5, find

(i) 𝑃(𝑋 = 4)
(1 mark)
(ii) 𝑃(𝑋 ≥ 3)
(1 mark)

QUESTION 2 [6 MARKS]

a) Find how many numbers between 5000 and 6000 can be formed from the digits 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 and 6

(i) if no digits are repeated, (2 marks)

(ii) if repeated digits are allowed. (2 marks)

b) How many 4-digit even numbers greater than 4000 can be formed from the digits 1, 2,
3, 4, 5 and 6. (2 marks)

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QUESTION 3 [7 MARKS]
a) State the conditions under which the Poisson distribution may be used as an
approximation to the binomial distribution.
(3 marks)

In a particular form of cancer, deformed blood corpuscles occur at random at the rate of 10
per 1000 corpuscles.

b) Use an appropriate approximation to find, to 3 decimal places, the probability that a

random sample of 200 corpuscles taken from the cancerous area will contain no deformed
corpuscles.
(4 marks)

QUESTION 4 [7 MARKS]
Find the number of ways of choosing a school team of five (5) pupils from six (6) boys and
eight (8) girls

(i) if there are more girls than boys in the team,

(4 marks)
(ii) if three of the boys are cousins and are either all in the team or all not in the team.
(3 marks)

QUESTION 5 [8 MARKS]
A discrete random variable X has the following probability distribution.

5
(i) Given that 𝐸(𝑋) = 6 , find the value of the constant 𝑎.
(3 marks)
(ii) Find 𝑉𝑎𝑟(𝑋).
(3 marks)
(iii) Find 𝑃(𝑋 < 1.5)
(2 marks)

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QUESTION 6 [9 MARKS]
In a school yard, the number of accidents occurring in a month follows a Poisson distribution
with mean 2.5. Find the probability that

(i) there will be at least three (3) accidents in February,

(2 marks)
(ii) there will be a total of eight (8) accidents in the months of May, June and July.
(3 marks)
Use a suitable approximation to calculate the probability
(iii) that there will be less than 25 accidents in one year.
(4 marks)

QUESTION 7 [11 MARKS]

a) Use the Kruskal’s algorithm to find the minimum spanning tree for the given network.
(4 marks)

2 3 4
(b) Find the inverse of matrix 𝐴 = (5 7 2)
3 1 5
(7 marks)

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QUESTION 8 [14 MARKS]
a) Use Cramer’s rule to solve the following system of equation:
(7 marks)
2𝑥 + 3𝑦 + 𝑧 = 7
4𝑥 + 5𝑦 + 2𝑧 = 13
7𝑥 + 𝑦 + 3𝑧 = 14
b) Use Gaussian elimination to solve the following system of equation:
(7 marks)

5x − 2y + 4z = 16
3x + y + 7z = 21
6x − 3y + 2z = 11

QUESTION 9 [15 MARKS]

a) Prove (A ∩ B) ′ = A′ ∪ B′
(4 marks)

b) A relation R is defined as R = {(2,2), (2,3), (2,4), (3,3), (3,2) (4,2), (4,4)}.

Verify whether R is an equivalent relation, showing all your workings and justifications.
(7 marks)
c) The function f is defined as 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 − 4𝑥 + 5 , x < 2
(i) Verify whether 𝑓(𝑥) is an injective function.
(3 marks)
(ii) Write an expression, without simplifying, for 𝑓 2 (x).
(1 mark)

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QUESTION 10 [17 MARKS]
A number of people were asked to guess the calorific content of 10 foods. The mean 𝑠 of
the guesses for each food and the true calorific content 𝑡 are given in the table below.

a) Draw a scatter diagram, indicating clearly which is the independent and which is the
dependent variable.
(3 marks)
b) Calculate, to 3 significant figures, the product moment correlation coefficient for the above
data.
(4 marks)
c) State, with a reason, whether or not the value of the product moment correlation coefficient
changes if all the guesses are 50 calories higher than the values in the table.
(2 marks)
The mean of the guesses for the portion of rice pudding and for the packet of biscuits are
outside the linear relation of the other eight foods.
d) Find the equation of the regression line of 𝑠 on 𝑡 excluding the values for rice pudding
and biscuits.
(4 marks)
e) Draw the regression line on your scatter diagram.
(2 marks)
f) State, with a reason, what the effect would be on the regression line of including the values
for a portion of rice pudding and a packet of biscuits.
(2 marks)

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