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Sample Exam 1 - Spring 2024

This document provides details about a sample exam for a numerical methods course. The exam contains 10 multiple choice questions covering various numerical methods topics like Newton-Raphson method, Secant method, one-point iteration method, and Lagrange interpolation.

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Sample Exam 1 - Spring 2024

This document provides details about a sample exam for a numerical methods course. The exam contains 10 multiple choice questions covering various numerical methods topics like Newton-Raphson method, Secant method, one-point iteration method, and Lagrange interpolation.

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Sample Exam

Semester: Spring 2024

Faculty : Faculty of Science


Department : Math & Computer Science Division/ program: Math/CS
Course Name : Numerical Methods Course Code: Math 348

Formula sheets will be provided with the exam paper.


Please submit detailed solutions to the link provided by Sunday, February 18, at 8:00 PM.
Late assignments will not be considered.
PDF files will be considered. Images will NOT be graded.

1- Find an approximation for the root of x3 + 4 x2 − 10 = 0 using the Newton-Raphson method


with an initial estimate x0 = 1.5 and stopping at the first iteration that gives an estimate
accurate to at least three significant figures.

a) 1.373333333; b) 1.6526201; c) 1.36523001; d)1.36519585


e) None of the above.

2- Use the simple one point iteration method to find the root of the equation 3x2 − ex = 0.
Perform three iterations start at x0 = 1. Provide your answer to 6 significant figures.

a) 0.929265; b) 0.918812; c) 0.910368; d) 0.909975

3- Use the Secant method to determine a solution to the equation x = 2 + ln x accurate to at


least 4 significant figures. Use x−1 = 2 and x0 = 3. Provide your answer to 6 significant
figures.
a) 3.14597; b) 4.64212; c) 3.14619; d) 0.13533;
e) None of the above.

4- Perform five iterations of the one-point iteration method to determine a solution to the
equation x = cos x in [0, /2]. Use x0 = 0.11 Provide your answer to 5 significant figures.

a) 0.79227; b) 0.65627; c) 0.85493; d) 0.99985;


e) none of the above.
5- Use Newton-Ranphson method to determine the value for x that maximizes the function
f(x) = −ex + (x3)/3 accurate to at least 2 significant figures. Provide your answer to 7
significant figures.

a) −0.7330436; b) −0.7034675; c) −0.733436; d) −0.703808;


e) none of the above.

6- Let f(x) = exp(−x2) – 3x – 2. Estimate the root of f(x) by the fixed point method. Use x0 = 0 and s
= 1 %.
a) -1.97984 b) -0.68633 c) -0.3772 d) -0.26697 e) -0.20846

7- To guarantee that the one-point iteration method converges to the unique root of
x 3 + 4x 2 − 10 = 0 in the interval [1, 2], we write the equation in the form x= g(x)
1/ 2
 10 
a) g ( x) = x − x 3 − 4 x 2 + 10 ; b) g ( x) =  − 4 x  ;
 x 

( )
1/ 2
1 1/ 2  10 
c) g ( x) = 10 − x 3 ; d) g ( x) =   ;
2 4+ x

8- Find the maximum of the function f(x) = exp(x) – 2x – 2 using Newton method with x0 = 1 and s
= 0.5 %.

a) 0.693148 b) 1.098625 c) 1.386301 d) 1.609438 e) 1.791763

9- Given the following data points, f(1) = 1.5, f(2) = 2.5, f(3) = 4.5, use a second order LaGrange
interpolating polynomial to estimate the value of f(2.1).
a) 2.655 b) 2.820 c) 2.995 d) 3.180 e) 3.375

10- Perform three iterations using the Bisection method to find an estimate for the root in
[0, 0.15] of 2x3 +3.9x2 +1.8x − 0.1 = 0. Give the answer using four significant figures.

a) 0.056; b) 0.5625; c) 0.0526; d) 0.05625;


e) none of the above.

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