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This document summarizes a student's attempt at a midterm quiz on Newton's method. The student answered 7 out of 10 questions correctly, earning a grade of 70%. The quiz covered topics like using Newton's method to find complex roots of polynomials, the relationship between Newton's method and Taylor series, and applying Newton's method to example functions.

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Midterm Quiz 1 - Attempt Review 1

This document summarizes a student's attempt at a midterm quiz on Newton's method. The student answered 7 out of 10 questions correctly, earning a grade of 70%. The quiz covered topics like using Newton's method to find complex roots of polynomials, the relationship between Newton's method and Taylor series, and applying Newton's method to example functions.

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4/24/2021 Midterm Quiz 1: Attempt review

Home / My courses / UGRD-MATH6330-2033T / Week 6: Newton’s Method / Midterm Quiz 1

Started on Saturday, 24 April 2021, 5:28 PM


State Finished
Completed on Saturday, 24 April 2021, 5:29 PM
Time taken 1 min
Grade 7.00 out of 10.00 (70%)

Question 1
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It is impossible to find the complex roots of a polynomial function, using Newton’s Method” is:

Select one:
True 

False

Question 2
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Newton’s method is based on a truncated version of the Taylor series keeping only the first order terms.

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True 

False

Question 3
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Positive definite matrix can be efficiently solved using Cholesky decomposition.

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True 

False

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Question 4
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Choosing an initial guess which gives near f(x) = 0 is considered a good guess

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True 

False

Question 5
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LU decomposition can be viewed as the matrix form of Gaussian elimination

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True 

False

Question 6
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The given matrix above is a symmetric matrix.

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True 

False

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Question 7
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What is the next approximated root for the function f(x) = x + cos(x) when x0 = 0?

Select one:
a. -0.7391

b. -1

c. 1 

d. 0

Your answer is correct.

Question 8
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For the function  f(x) =its first derivative is  f’(x) is   The first derivative of the function   is f’(x) = 

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True 

False

Question 9
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If matrix A is invertible such that A−1 = L−TL−1 then matrix A can be decomposed using Cholesky’s method.

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True 

False

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Question 10
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For  is the iteration may terminate if the difference between f (x)  is already zero.

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True 

False

◄ W6: Lesson 4 - Newton’s Method - Video Lecture

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