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SECOND YEAR, FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR
OF ACTURIAL SCIENCE
SMA 2321: NUMERICAL ANALYSIS I
DATE: DECEMBER 2014 TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer question one and any other two questions
QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)
a) (i) Find by iterative method the root near 3.8 of the equation 2 - log10 x = 7 correct to
four decimal places. (5 marks)
(ii) Using Newton-Raphson iterative formula establish the iterative formula
N
x n +1 = 1 2 x n + 2 to calculate the root of N where N is a real number, hence find the
3 xn
cube-root of 12 to 4 decimal places. (7 marks)
ax
b) Find (i) e (2 marks)
∆e
2 x
(ii) (2 marks)
c) Given u o = 1, u1 = 11, u 2 = 21, u 3 = 28, u 4 = 29
find ∆ u 0 .
4
(4 marks)
1
d) Evaluate y= for x=0.05 from the following table using Newton’s backward
interpretation formula (7 marks)
x 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40
y= 1.000 1.2214 1.4918 1.8221 2.255
1 x
e
e) Evaluate
0 x
dx (3 marks)
QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)
dy d2y
a) From the following table of values of x and y find and for x=1.05, using
dx dx 2
Newton’s forward interpolation formula. (10 marks)
x 1.00 1.05 1.10 1.15 1.20 1.25 1.30
y 1.00000 1.02470 1.04881 1.07238 1.09544 1.11803 1.14017
b) From the following table find x correct to two decimal places for which y is maximum
and find this value of y. (10 marks)
x 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6
y 0.9320 0.9636 0.9855 0.9975 0.996
QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)
a) (i) Using Lagrange’s interpolation formula, find a polynomial which passed through the
points
(0,-12), (1,0), (3,6), (4,12). (10 marks)
2
(ii) Using Lagrange’s interpolation formula, find the value of y corresponding to x=10
from the following table. (10 marks)
x 5 6 9 11
y 12 13 14 16
QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)
1
x
a) Calculate the value of 1 + xdx correct to three significant figures taking six intervals by
0
toxpezadal rule. (8 marks)
0.6
e dx , using n=6 correct to five significant figures by Simpon’s rule.
x
b) Find the value of
0
(7 marks)
1
1
1 + xdx , using Euler-maclaurin formula
2
c) Find the value of log frome (5 marks)
0
QUESTION FIVE (20 MARKS)
1
a) Find the iterative methods based on the Newton-Raphson method for finding N and
N
where N is a positive real number. Apply the methods when N=18 to obtain the results
correct to 2 decimal (6 marks)
b) Perform two iterations of the linear iteration method followed by one iteration of the
Aitken’s method to find the root of the equation ( )= (7 marks)
c) A real-root of the equation ( ) = − 5 + 1=0 lies in the interval (0,1). Perform four
iterations of the Regula-Falsi method to obtain this root. (7 marks)
