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MA3251 – STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL METHODS

UNIT I TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS
PART A

1. State level of significance.

2. State critical region
3. What are the parameters and statistics in sampling?
4. What are null and alternate hypothesis?
5. Define Type I Error & Type II Error
6. Write down the procedure for testing of hypothesis
7. Define Standard error.
8. Define Random sampling.
9. What is the assumption of t-test?
10. Define ‘F’ variate
11. In a large city A, 20 percent of a random sample of 900 school boys had a
slight physical defect. In another large city B, 18.5 percent of a random
sample of 1600 school boys had some defect. Is the difference between the
proportions significant?
12. Write the application of ‘F’ test.
13. Write down the formula of test Statistic ‘t’ to test the significance of
difference between the means.
14. What are the applications of t-test?
15. A standard sample of 200 tins of coconut oil gave an average weight of 4.95
kg with a standard deviation of 0.21 kg. Do we accept that the net weight is 5
kg per tin at 5% level of significance?
16. What are the properties of “F” test?
17. State any two applications of ψ2(Chi-square)-test.
18. What is the formula for the chi- square test of goodness of fit of a random
sample to a hypothetical distribution?
19. Write the formula for the chi- square test of independence of attributes.

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20. Write the formula for the chi- square test of independence of attributes.

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PART – B

1. A group of 10 rats fed on diet A and another group of 8 rats fed on diet B,
recorded the following increase in weight(gm.)
Diet A 5 6 8 1 12 4 3 9 6 10
Diet B 2 3 6 8 10 1 2 8 - -

Does it show the superiority of diet A over diet B.

2. Two random samples drawn from normal populations are given below. Obtain
the estimates of the variances of the populations and test whether the two
populations have the same variance.
Sample I 20 16 26 27 23 22 18 24 25 19
Sample 27 33 42 35 32 34 38 28 41 43
II

3. The mean height of two samples of 1000 and 2000 members are respectively
67.5 and 68 inches. Can they be regarded as drawn from the same population
with standard deviation 2.5 inches?

4. A random sample of 10 boys as the following IQ’s

70,120,110,101,88,83,95,98,107,100. Does this data support the assumption of
a population mean IQ of 100?

5. A simple sample of heights of 6400 Englishmen has a mean of 170cms and a

standard deviation of 6.4cms, while a simple sample of heights of 1600
Americans has a mean of 172cms and a standard deviation of 6.3cms. Do the
data indicate that Americans are, on the average, taller than Englishmen?

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6. A certain medicine administered to each of 10 patients resulted in the
following increases in the B.P. 8, 8, 7, 5, 4, 1, 0, 0, -1, -1. Can it be concluded
that the medicine was responsible for the increase in B.P. 5% level of
significance.

7. The mean produce of wheat from a sample of 100 fields comes to 200kg per
acre and another sample of 150 fields gives a mean 220 kg per acre. Assuming
the standard deviation of the yield at 11 kg for the universe, test if there is a
significant difference between the means of the samples?

8. Fit a poisson distribution for the following data and test the goodness of fit.

X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 56 156 132 92 37 22 5

9. A certain medicine administered to each of 10 patients resulted in the

following increases in the B.P. 8, 8, 7, 5, 4, 1, 0, 0, -1, -1. Can it be concluded
that the medicine was responsible for the increase in B.P. 5% level of
significance.

UNIT II DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

PART A
1. What is the aim of design of experiments?
2. Write the basic assumptions in analysis of variance.
3. When do you apply analysis of variance technique?
4. Define Randomization.
5. Define Replication.
6. Define Local control.
7. What is meant by tolerance limits?
8. What do you mean by one way classification in Analysis of variance?
9. What is a completely randomized design.
10. Explain the advantages of a Latin square design?
11. What are the basic elements of an CRD?
12. Explain the purpose of blocking in a randomized block design?

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13. Manipulate the Basic principles of the design of experiment?
14. Why a2x2 Latin square is not possible? Explain.
15. Analyze the advantages of the LSD over the other design.
16. Demonstrate main advantage of LSD over RBD.
17. Write any two differences between RBD and LSD.
18. What is ANOVA?
19. What are the uses of ANOVA?
20. Define experimental error

PART B

1. The accompanying data resulted from an experiment comparing the degree

of soiling for fabric copolymerized with the 3 different mixtures of met
acrylic acid. Analyze the Classification.
Mixture 1 0.56 1.12 0.9 1.07 0.94
Mixture 2 0.72 0.69 0.87 0.78 0.91
Mixture 3 0.62 1.08 1.07 0.99 0.93

2. In order to determine whether there is significant difference in the durability

of 3makes of computers, samples of size 5 are selected from each make and
the frequency of repair during the first year of purchase is observed. The
results are as follows: In view of the above data, what conclusion can you
draw?

A B C
5 8 7
6 10 3
8 11 5
9 12 4
7 4 1

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3. Perform a 2-way ANOVA on the data given below:
Treatment 1
Treatment 2 1 2 3
1 30 26 38
2 24 29 28
3 33 24 35
4 36 31 30
5 27 35 33
6 23 34 31
7 21 34 32
8 36 29 37
Use the coding method subtracting 30 from the given no.

4. A variable trial was conducted on wheat with 4 varieties in a Latin square

design. The plan of the experiment and the per plot yield are given below.
Test an ANOVA to determine there is significant difference between 4
varieties of wheat.
C25 B23 A20 D20
A19 D19 C21 D18
B19 A14 D17 C20
D17 C21 B20 A15
5. Set up the analysis of variance for the following results of a Latin Square
Design (use α = 0.01) level of significance
A12 C19 B10 D8
C18 B12 D6 A7
B22 D10 A5 C21
D12 A7 C27 B17

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6. A company appoints 4 salesmen A,B,C and D and observes theirsales in 3
seasons, summer winter and monsoon. The figures are given in the following
table: Carry out an Analysis of variances.
Season 1 2 3 4
Summer 45 40 28 37
Winter 43 41 45 28
Monsoon 39 39 43 41

Salesmen

7. A set of data involving 4 tropical food stuffs A, B, C, D tried on 20 chicks is

given below. All the 20 chicks are treated alike in all respects except the
feeding treatments and each feeding treatment is given to 5 chicks. Analyze
the data:

A 55 49 42 21 52
B 61 112 30 89 63
C 42 97 81 95 92
D 169 137 169 85 154

8. The following is a Latin square of a design when four varieties of seeds are
being tested. Create the analysis of variance table and state your conclusion.
You may carry out suitable change of origin and scale
A105 B95 C125 D115
C115 D125 A105 B105
D115 C95 B105 A115
B95 A135 D95 C115

PART B

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 UNIT III
PART A
1. State the order of convergence and condition for convergence of Newton-
Raphson method
2. State the principle used in Gauss – Jordan method
3. State the error term of Newton Raphson method
4. State the condition for the convergence of Gauss Seidel iteration method
for solving a system of linear equation
5. Name two direct method to solve system of linear equations
6. What are the merits of Newton’s method of iterations
7. Write the procedure involved in Gauss elimination method
8. Give an example of transcendental and algebraic equation?
9. Explain why Gauss-Seidal method is better than Jacobi’s-iterative method?
10. Write down all possible types of initial vectors to determine the largest
eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of a matrix of size 2x2
11. Find the real positive root of 3x-cosx-1=0 by Newton’s method correct to
6 decimal places
12. Solve the following system of equations using Gauss-Jordan elimination
method 2x+y=3 ,-2y=-1
1 2
Find the dominant eigenvalue of the matrix by power method
13. 3 4

Arrive a formula to find the value of where N ≠ 0, using

14.
Newton-Raphson method
15.
Drive the formula to find the value of and 1/N where N ≠ 0, using
Newton Raphson method
16. Write down the difference between Gauss Seidel method, Gauss Jordan
method
17. Explain the power method to determine the eigenvalue of a matrix
18. Compare Gauss elimination and Gauss Jordan methods
19.
What is the inverse of A = by Gauss Jordan Method

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20. Generate the iterative formula for Gauss-Seidel method?
PART-B
1. Find the positive real root of log10 x = 1.2 using Newton – Raphson
method
2. Evaluate the positive real root of x2 -2x -3 = 0 using Iteration
method, Correct to 3 decimal places.
3. Solve by Gauss Elimination method 3x + y – z = 3 ; 2x – 8y + z = -5 ;
x -2y + 9z = 8
4. Solve by Gauss Jordan method 10 x + y + z =12 ; 2x + 10y + z = 13;
x + y + 5z =7.
5. Apply Gauss seidel method to solve system of equations
x – 2y +5z = 12 ; 5x + 2y - z = 6 ; 2x + 6 y – 3z = 5 (Do up to 4
iterations)
6. 1 3 3
Find the inverse of the matrix 1 4 3 using Gauss Jordan method
1 3 4
7. Solve the following system of equations by Gauss Jacobi 10x-5y-2z=3,
4x-10y+3z=-3, x+6y+10z=-3
8. 25 1 2
Find the dominant Eigen value and vector of 1 3 0 using power
2 0 −4
method.
9. 5 0 1
Using power method, Find all the Eigen values of � = 0 −2 0
1 0 5
UNIT-IV
PART-A
1. State any two properties of divided differences

2. State the formula to find the second order derivative using the forward
differences
3. Write down the Lagrange’s interpolating formula
4. State the Simpson’s 1/3-rule in numerical integration
5. State the use of Lagrange’s interpolation form
6. What is inverse interpolation?
7. Using Lagrange’s formula to fit a polynomial to the data and find y at x = 1
X: -1 0 2 3
Y: -8 3 1 12

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8. Form the divided difference table for the following data:
x : 5 15 22
y : 7 36 160
9. Write the need of Newton’s and Lagrange’s interpolation formulae?
10. Find the polynomial which takes the following values given f (0) = -1, f (1)
= 1 and f (2) = 4 using the Newton’s interpolating formula
11. Show that the divided difference operator is linear
12. Predict divided difference table for the following data (0, 0), (1, 2), (2, 2.5),
(3, 2.3), (4, 2), (5, 1.7) and (6, 1.5)
13. Show that the divided differences are symmetrical in their arguments
14. Interpret inverse Lagrange’s interpolation formula
15. Analyze the divided differences with arguments a, b, c if f(x) = 1/x
16. Show that the divided difference of second order can be expressed as the
quotient of two determinants of third order
17. Evaluate
1 ��
by Trapezoidal rule, dividing the range into 4 equal parts
0.5 �
18. 2 ��
Evaluate 1 1+�2, using Trapezoidal rule, taking h = 0.5
19. Using Trapezoidal rule, evaluate
1 ��
with h = 0.2 hence obtain an
0 1+�2
approximate value of �
20. Describe in numerical integration, what should be the number of intervals
to apply Simpson’s one – third rule and Simpson’s three – eighths rule
PART-B
1. The population of a certain town is given below. Find the rate of growth of
the population in 1931, 1971
Year(x) 1931 1941 1951 1961 1971
Population(in1000) 40.62 60.80 79.95 103.56 132.66
2. From the following table, find f(6) using Newton’s divided
difference formula
x 1 2 7 8
y 1 5 5 4
3. Find the polynomial using Newton’s forward interpolation formula
and also find y (4), given that
x 0 1 2 3
y 1 2 1 10
4. Calculate f′ (50) , f′(56) , f′′(56) from the following table:
x 50 51 52 53 54 55 56

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 f(X) 3.6840 3.7084 3.7325 3.7563 3.7798 3.8030 3.8259
5. Evaluate
1 ��
dividing the range into 4 equal parts using simpson’s rule.
0 1+�2
6. Find the first , second and third derivative of the function f(x) at x=1.5 and
4
x 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
f(x) 3.375 7 13.625 24 38.875 59
�
7. By dividing the range into 10 equal parts, evaluate 0 ���� �� by
Trapezoidal and Simpson’s rule. Verify your answer with
integration
8. Evaluate
2 2 �� ��
h=k=0.25 using trapezoidal simpson’s rule and
1 1 �+�
justify.
9. Evaluate
1.2 1.4 �� ��
by trapezoidal rule and simpson’s 1/3 rule with
1 1 1+�
h=k=0.1
10. Evaluate
1 1 �+�
� �� �� by trapezoidal rule and simpson’s 1/3 rule
0 0
UNIT-V
PART-A
1. State the advantages of Runge – Kutta method over Taylor Series method
2. State the merits of RK – method over Taylor series method
3. Write Milne’s predictor-corrector formula
4. Find y(0.4) given y’=xy , y(0)=1 , using R-K method of fourth order.
5. Write down the Runge – Kutta method of order 4 for solving initial value
problems in ordinary differential equation
6.
Find y (0.1) by Euler’s method, if , y(0)=1
7. What are the distinguished properties of R-K methods?
8. Use R-K method of second order to estimate y (0.4) given y’=xy, y(0)=1
9. Given y′=−y and y (0) = 1, determine the value of y (0.1) by Euler’s method
10. Using Taylor’s method, find y at x = 1.1 given
��
=�3 + �, y(1)=1
��
11. Compute y at x = 0.25 by Modified Euler method given y’=2xy, y(0)=1
12. State Adam- Bashforth predictor and corrector formulae to solve
first order ordinary differential equations.
13. State Milne’s predictor corrector formula.
14. What are the single step methods available for solving ordinary
differential equations.

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15. What are the advantages of R-K method over taylor’s method.
16. Prepare the multi-step methods available for solving ordinary
differential equation.
17. State adam’s predictor corrector formula
18. Compute y at x = 0.25 by Modified Euler method given y’=xy, y(0)=1
19. ��
Analyze Taylor’s series up to x3 terms satisfying ��=�3 + 1, y(0)=1
20. What are the difference between R-K method over taylor’s method
PART-B
1. ��
Apply Euler method to find � (0.2) ����(0.4) given �� = � − �2 + 1 and
y(0)=0.5
2. Interpret y(0.1) given
��
= �2 + �2 y(0) =1 using modified Euler
��
methods.
3. Using improved Euler’s method, find y at x=0.1 and x=0.2 given that �' =
2�
�− �
with y(0)=1.
4. ��
Find the values of y at � = 0.1 given that �� = �2 − �, y(0)=1 by Taylor’s
series method.
5. Examine 2�’ – � – � = 0 given �(0) = 2 , �(0.5) = 2.636,
�(1) = 3.595, �(1.5) = 4.968 to get �(2) by Adam’s method.
6. By Adam’s method, find y (4.4) given, 5��’ + �2 = 2 , �(4) = 1;
Find �(4.1), �(4.2), �(4.3) by Euler’s method
7. Find �(2) by Milne’s method
��
=
1
� + � ������(0) = 2 ,
�� 2
�(0.5) = 2.636, �(1.0) = 3.595 ����(1.5) = 4.968
8. Given that �� =
�� �2 −2�
and y=1 when x=0 , find y(0.2) using R-K method of
�2 +�
fourth order by taking h=0.2
9. Given
��
= �� + �2 and y(0)=1 , y(0.1)=1.1169, y(0.2)=1.2773 find by R-
��
K method of fourth order.

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