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The document contains instructions to use the Bisection method to find solutions for various functions on given intervals. Specifically, it provides 6 problems to find roots of functions within a specified accuracy using the Bisection method on different intervals. The problems involve finding zeros of polynomials, exponentials, logarithmic, trigonometric and other functions on intervals ranging from -3 to 4.

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Tutorial 1

The document contains instructions to use the Bisection method to find solutions for various functions on given intervals. Specifically, it provides 6 problems to find roots of functions within a specified accuracy using the Bisection method on different intervals. The problems involve finding zeros of polynomials, exponentials, logarithmic, trigonometric and other functions on intervals ranging from -3 to 4.

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1. Use the Bisection method to find p3 for f (x) = x − cos x on [0, 1].
2. Let f (x) = 3(x + 1)(x − 21 )(x − 1). Use the Bisection method on the following intervals to find p3 .
a. [−2, 1.5] b. [−1.25, 2.5]
3. Use the Bisection method to find solutions accurate to within 10−2 for x 3 − 7x 2 + 14x − 6 = 0 on
each interval.
a. [0, 1] b. [1, 3.2] c. [3.2, 4]
4. Use the Bisection method to find solutions accurate to within 10−2 for x 4 − 2x 3 − 4x 2 + 4x + 4 = 0
on each interval.
a. [−2, −1] b. [0, 2] c. [2, 3] d. [−1, 0]
5. Use the Bisection method to find solutions accurate to within 10−5 for the following problems.
a. x − 2−x = 0 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1
b. ex − x 2 + 3x − 2 = 0 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1
c. 2x cos(2x) − (x + 1) = 0
2
for −3 ≤ x ≤ −2 and −1 ≤ x ≤ 0
d. x cos x − 2x 2 + 3x − 1 = 0 for 0.2 ≤ x ≤ 0.3 and 1.2 ≤ x ≤ 1.3
6. Use the Bisection method to find solutions, accurate to within 10−5 for the following problems.
a. 3x − ex = 0 for 1 ≤ x ≤ 2
b. 2x + 3 cos x − ex = 0 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1
c. x − 4x + 4 − ln x = 0
2
for 1 ≤ x ≤ 2 and 2≤x≤4
d. x + 1 − 2 sin π x = 0 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.5 and 0.5 ≤ x ≤ 1

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