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Worksheet I Numeric

This document is a worksheet for a Numerical Analysis course at Haramaya University, containing various mathematical problems related to significant figures, rounding, truncation errors, percentage errors, and numerical methods such as bisection and Newton's method. It includes exercises on calculating errors, finding roots of equations, and solving systems of linear equations using Gaussian elimination. The worksheet aims to enhance students' understanding of numerical analysis concepts and techniques.

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Worksheet I Numeric

This document is a worksheet for a Numerical Analysis course at Haramaya University, containing various mathematical problems related to significant figures, rounding, truncation errors, percentage errors, and numerical methods such as bisection and Newton's method. It includes exercises on calculating errors, finding roots of equations, and solving systems of linear equations using Gaussian elimination. The worksheet aims to enhance students' understanding of numerical analysis concepts and techniques.

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Haramaya University

College of Natural and computational science


Department of Mathematics
Numerical Analysis worksheet I
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Instruction: - Please attempt carefully the following all questions.
1. How many significant figures (digits) are in the following numbers
a) 7.450057 b) 0.009500 c) 458,000 d) 12.0001× 108 e) 0.2300 × 10−11
2. Round and chopping off the following numbers to 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 significant digits
a) 0.345 b) 50.90405 c) 0.00067 d) 65. 000 e) 0.6998 f) 0.04051 g) 9.8909 × 103 .
3. Round the number a) 54,678.002 b) 0.09951 c) 7.99995 d) 0.050505 to
(i) 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 sd. (ii) 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and 0 dp.
𝑓(𝑥+ℎ)−𝑓(𝑥)
4. Find the truncation error in calculating 𝒇′ (𝟑)for 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 by 𝑓 ′ (𝑥) ≈ with ℎ = 0.2.
ℎ

5. Let the approximate value of a given problem by a certain numerical method is 4.998. If its exact
value is 5, then, the percentage error that occurred by this method
6. If exact value of a measurement is 50 and its absolute error is 0.01, then find relative and
percentage error of the given measurement.
7. Find the bounds for the propagation error in adding two numbers, 𝑋 + 𝑌, where X = 1.5 ± 0.05, and
Y = 3.4 ± 0.04.
8. The number 𝑥 and 𝑦 are approximated with possible errors of ∆𝑥 and ∆𝑦 respectively, then
|∆𝑥| |∆𝑦|
a) show that the maximum percentage relative error in 𝑥𝑦 is [ + ] × 100%.
𝑥 𝑦

b) if 𝑥 = 4.95 and 𝑦 = 2.013, calculate percentage error in 𝑥𝑦.


𝑥2𝑦2
9. If 𝑢 = and errors in 𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧 be 10−3for each, calculate the maximum relative error at each point
𝑧2

(1,1,1).
10. The error in measurement of radius of sphere is 0.3 %. What will be the permissible error in
calculation of its surface area.
11. Compute the condition number of the following functions:
a. 𝑓(𝑥) = √𝑥 𝑏) 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑐𝑜𝑠(𝑥). c. 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑐𝑜𝑠 −1 (𝑥).
12. To find the root of 𝑓(𝑥) = 0, a scientist is using the bisection method. At the beginning of an iteration, the
lower and upper guesses of the root are 𝑥𝑙 and 𝑥𝑢 . Then show that, at the end of the iteration, the absolute
𝑥 −𝑥 𝑥 −𝑥
relative approximate error in the estimated value of the root would be |𝑥𝑢 +𝑥𝑙| and |𝑥𝑙 +𝑥𝑢 |.
𝑢 𝑙 𝑢 𝑙

13. Show that 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 + 4𝑥 2 − 10 = 0 has a root in [1, 2]. How many number of iterations are
required to achieve accuracy of at least within 10−3 by using Bisection method.

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14. Use the bisection and False position methods to find a root of the following equations correct to 2
decimal places.
a) 𝑥 3 − 𝑥 − 1 = 0, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ [1.25, 1.5] b) 2𝑥 3 −2𝑥 − 5 = 0, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ [1.5, 1.75]
c) 𝑥 3 − 5𝑥 = 9
15. Derive the Newton’s method for finding
a) 1/𝑁, where 𝑁 > 0.
1⁄
b) 𝑁 𝑘 where 𝑁 > 0, 𝑘 > 0. Hence find √2 with 𝑥0 = 1.5 correct to 4 decimal places.

C) Root of 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 𝑚 , 𝑚 𝜖 ℤ.
16. Find the secant method formula for finding the square root of a real number R.
17. Let 𝑓(𝑥) = −𝑥 3 + 𝑥 + 1,with x0 = −1and x1 = 0, find x4 by Secant method correct to 4dp.
18. Use Newton’s method and Secant method to find solutions accurate to within 10−2 for the following
problems.
a. 𝑥 3 − 2𝑥 2 − 5 = 0, [1,4] b. 𝑥 3 + 3𝑥 2 − 5 = 0, [−3, −2]
c. 𝑥 − 𝑐𝑜𝑠 𝑥 = 0, [0, 𝜋/2] d. 2𝑥 − (𝑥 − 2)2 = 0 for 2 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 3 and 3 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 4
19. Solve the following systems of linear equations by using the Gaussian elimination method
4𝑥1 − 𝑥2 + 𝑥3 = 8 𝑥1 + 3𝑥2 − 2𝑥3 = 5
a) 2𝑥1 + 5𝑥2 + 2𝑥3 = 3 (𝑐) 3𝑥1 + 5𝑥2 + 6𝑥3 = 7
𝑥1 + 2𝑥2 + 4𝑥3 = 11 2𝑥1 + 4𝑥2 + 3𝑥3 = 8
4𝑥1 + 𝑥2 + 𝑥3 + 𝑥4 = 2
4𝑥1 + 𝑥2 + 2𝑥3 = 9
𝑥1 + 3𝑥2 − 𝑥4 = 2
b) 2𝑥1 + 4𝑥2 − 𝑥3 = −5 (d)
𝑥1 + 2𝑥3 + 𝑥4 = 1
𝑥1 + 𝑥2 − 3𝑥3 = −9
𝑥1 − 𝑥2 + 𝑥3 + 4𝑥4 = 1

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