UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR

COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Department:- Computer Science/Statistics
Course Title:- Numerical Analysis/Maethods Course Code:- Math 2082/3061
WORKSHEET I
1. Compute the Absolute Error, Relative Error and Percentage Error of the following given values.
a) X = 0.44 , x = 4/9 b) X= 3.14, x = 22/7 c) X = 2.718, x = e
2. Determine the number of significant figures/ digits for the following numbers.
a) 12348 c) 2005 e) 1.000 g) 0.0002 i) 25000
b) 00.0025 d) 0.2000 f) 0.00 h) 0.10000
3. Write the following numbers by Rounding off to four significant digits.
a) 2.335568 b) 54.6688 c) 462.2589 d) 56555899 d) 257333
4. Write the following numbers by chopping off to four significant figures.
a) 2.335568 b) 54.6688 c) 462.2589 d) 5655899 e) 257333
5. Given that 5 digit chopping is used for arithmetic calculations involving x and y where x = 1/3 and
y = 5/7. Determine the absolute and relative errors involved.
6. If x = 3.536, determine the absolute error and relative error when
a) x is rounded to two decimal places.
b) x is truncated to two decimal places.
7. If the number x = 57.46235 is rounded off to four significant figures, find the absolute error,
relative error and percentage error.
8. Given: a = 10.00  0.05, b = 0.0356  0.0002, c = 15300  100, d = 62000  500. Find the
maximum value of absolute error in
a) a + b + c + d b) a + 5c – d c) c3 d) (a + b)/cd e) a2b + cd4 f) abcd
9. Y = 0.0078560 round off one significant figure, two significant figure, three significant
figure, four significant figure and five significant figure.
10. If U = 3V7 – 6V, find the percentage error in U at V = 1 if the error in V is 0.05.
11. Find the maximum relative error in F which . Given x = y = z = 0.001, where x, y,
z denotes the errors in x, y, z respectively such that x = y = z = 1.
12. Given the number  = 3.14159265358979… is approximated to 4 decimal places.
a) Determine the relative error due to chopping and express it as a per cent.
b) Determine the relative error due to rounding and express it as a per cent.

13. If , find the percentage error in z when x = 3.14  0.0016 and y = 4.5  0.05.
14. Three approximate values of number are given as 0.30, 0.33 and 0.34. Which of these
three is the best approximation?
15. If S = 4x2y3z-4, find the maximum absolute error and maximum relative errors in S. When
errors in x = 1 , y = 2, z = 3 respectively are equal to 0.001, 0.002, 0.003.
16. Calculate the absolute and relative errors in the expression , if the
measurements of a = 3.5435, b = .2588 and c = 1.0150 are possibly correct up to four
decimal points.
17. Round-off the number 75462 to four significant digits and then calculate its absolute
error, relative error and percentage error.
18. Find the absolute error in the product uv if u = 56.54  0.005 and v = 12.4  0.05.
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 19. What is the difference between algebraic and transcendental equations?
20. Why we are using numerical iterative methods for solving equations?
21. Based on which principle, the bisection and regula-falsi method is developed?
22. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the bracketing methods like bisection and
regula-falsi?
23. What is the importance of defining the order or rate of convergence of a method?
24. When does the Newton-Raphson method fail?
25. What are the criteria used to terminate an iterative procedure?
26. Define the fixed point iteration method to obtain a root of f(x) = 0. When does the method
converge?
27. Write the method of false position to obtain a root of f(x) = 0. What is the computational
cost of the method?
28. What is the disadvantage of the method of false position?
29. What is the rate of convergence of the following methods:
(i) Bisection Method (iv) Newton-Raphson method,
(ii) Method of false position, (v) Secant Method
(iii) Fixed point iteration method?
30. Use the Bisection method to find X3 for f(x) = - cosx on [0,1].
31. Use the Bisection method to find solutions accurate to within 10-5 for the following problems.
a) 3x – ex = 0 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1
b) X + 3cosx – ex = 0 for 1 ≤ x ≤ 2 and 2 ≤ x ≤ 4
c) X2 – 4x + 4 – lnx = 0 for 1 ≤ x ≤ 2 and 0.5 ≤ x ≤ 1
32. Use the Bisection method to find a solution accurate to four decimal places for x = tanx in the
interval (4.4,4.6)
33. Use the Bisection method to compute of ex – 3x = 0 correct to three decimal places in the interval
(1.5,1.6)
34. Find the root of logx = cosx correct to two decimal places using Bisection method.
35. Use the method of False position to find solution accurate to within 10-4 for the function f(x)
= x – cosx in the interval (0,π/2).
36. Solve the equation, xtanx + 1 = 0, by Regula Falsi method starting with a = 2.5 and b = 3 correct to
three decimal places.
37. Use the method of Regula-falsi method to find solution accurate to three decimal places for the
following equations:
a) 2x – 3sinx = 5 b) Xex = cosx c) 2x = cosx + 3
38. In the following problems, find the root as specified using the iteration method/ method of
successive approximation/ fixed-point iteration method.
a) Find the smallest positive root of x2 – 5x + 1 = 0 correct to four decimal places.
b) Find the smallest negative root in magnitude of 3x3 – x + 1 = 0, correct to four decimal places
c) Find the real root of the equation cosx = 3x – 1
39. Use the method of successive approximation to determine a solution to within 10-2 for x4 – 3x2 – 3
= 0 on [1, 2]. Use x0 = 1.
40. Use Fixed-Point iteration method to find a root of ex – x2 = 0 correct to four significant figures
41. A root of f(x) = x3 – 10x2 + 5 = 0 lies close to x = 0.7. Determine this root with the Newton-
Raphson method accurate to five decimal places.
42. A root of f(x) = x3 –x2 – 5 = 0 lies in the interval (2,3). Determine this root with the newton-
Raphson method to five decimal accuracy.
43. Use Newton-Raphson method to obtain a root, correct to three decimal places, of the following
equations.
a) xsin2 – 4 = 0 c) x3 -5x + 3 =0 e) x – cosx = 0
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 b) x + lnx = 2 d) xe-x = (1/2)sinx
44. Find the double root of x3 – x2 – x + 1 = 0 using Newton-Raphson method with x0 = 0.8.
45. Find a root of x6 – x – 1 = 0 using secant method approximations: x0 = 2 and x1 = 1.
46. Find a root of x3 – 75 = 0 using the secant method with initial approximations x0 = 4 and x1 = 5.
47. Find a root of the sinx – 0.1x = 0 using secant method with initial approximations x0 = 2 & x1 = 3
48. Determine the highest root of f(x) = 2x3 – 11.7x2 + 17.7x – 5 using
a) Bisection method (10 iterations)
b) Regula-Falsi method (5 iterations)
c) Fixed-Point iteration method ( 3 iterations, x0 = 3)
d) Newton-Raphson method ( 3 iterations, x0 = 3)
e) Secant method ( 3 iterations, x0 = 3, x1 = 4)
49. How can we find an initial approximation to the root of f(x) = 0?
50. Define the Fixed-Point iteration method to obtain a root of f(x) = 0.
51. Write the Newton-Raphson method to obtain a root of f(x) = 0. What is the computational cost of
the method?
52. If a = 0.1 and b = 1.0, how many steps of the bisection method are needed to determine the root
with an error of at most 1/2×10-8?
53. Find an approximation to correct to within 10-4 using all methods we discussed.

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