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Sub.Code: MA6452 Branch/Year/SEM: /I/ II
Sub.Name: STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL METHODS Batch: 2014-2018
Staff Name: M.ASUMATHI M.Sc.,M.Phil., B.Ed., Academic Year: 2015-2016(EVEN)

UNIT-I&II: TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS ,DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

PART – A
1. Define Standard error.
2. Define Null hypothesis.
3. What is Type I, Type II error?
4. Define test statistics.
5. In a large city A, 20% of a random variable of 900 school boys had a slight physical defect. In another
large city B, 18.5% of a random sample of 1600 school boys had same defect. Is the difference
between the propositions significant.
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6. Write the application of ‘F’-test and
7. A sample of size 13 gave an estimated population variance of 3.0 , while another sample size 15 gave
an estimate of 2.5 could both samples be from populations with the same variance.
8. Write two application of Ψ2-test.
9. Define a F- variance?
10. Define Analysi of variance.
11. What are the assumption in analysis of variance?
12. What are the three essential steps to plan an experiment?
13. What are the basic steps in ANOVA?
14. State the formula to find SSC.
15. Write the steps to find F-ratio.
16. Write down the ANOVA table for one-way classification.
17. What are the advantages of completely randomised block design?
18. State the uses of ANOVA.
19. How would you compare the calculated FC with FT and conclude the analysis of variance?
20. Write the ANOVA table for randomised block design.
21. Define replication.
22. Write down the steps to compute variance within samples.
23. State the advantages of latin square over other designs.
24. Write down the ANOVA table for latin square.
25. Write the difference between RBD and LSD..

PART - B

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1) An automatic machine fills tea in sealed tins with mean weight of tea 1 kg and standard deviation of
1gm. A random sample of 50 tins was examined, and it was found that their mean weight was
999.50g. State whether the machine is working properly or not.

2) The weights of fish in a certain pond that is regularly stocked are considered to be normally
distributed with a mean of 3.1 kg and a standard deviation of 1.1kg. A random sample of size 30 is
selected from the pond and the sample mean is found to be 2.4kg. Is these sufficient evidence to
indicate that the mean weight of the fish differs from 3.1kg? Use a 10% significance level.

3) A Stenographer claims that she can type at a rate of 120 words per minute. Can use reject her claim
on the basis of 100 trials in which she demonstrates a mean of 116 words with a standard deviation of
15 words? Use 5% level of significance.

4) In a certain factory there are two different process manufacturing the same item. The average weight in
sample of 250 items produced from one process is found to be 120 gms with a s.d of 12 gms; the
corresponding figures in a sample of 400 items from the other process are 124 and 14. In there any
significant difference between the average of two samples at 1% level of significance?

5) The average annual pay in 1989 was Rs 21,128 in the state of Tamil Nadu and Rs. 25,233 in the
state of Maharastra. There is a difference of Rs 4,105. Suppose that a statistician believes that the
difference is much less for employees in the manufacturing industry and takes an independent random
sample of employees in the manufacturing industry in each state. The results are as follows:

State x s n

Tamil 21,900 3,700 150

Nadu
Maharastra 24,800 3,100 190

At the 0.05 significance level, do the data support the statistician’s belief that for employees in
the manufacturing industry, the mean annual salary in Tamil Nadu differs from the mean annual
salary in Maharastra by less than Rs 4105?

6) A college conducts both day and night classes intended to be identical. A

sample of 100 day students’ field estimation results as below:
x1  72.4 and  1  14.8
A sample of 200 night students’ field examination results as below:
x 2  73.9 and  2  17.9
Are the two means statistically equal at 10% level of significance?

7) For the last decade, a medical representative’s record shows a proportion of favorable calls of 2/5. He
tries a new technique and achieves 23 favorable calls out of 40 calls. Does this signify that the new
technique is effective at 5% level of significance?

8) In a survey of 600 adults who earn over Rs100,000 a month, 36 of them said that they feel that it is a
necessity to fly first class when they travel. Do the data support the belief that more than 5 percent of

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those adults with a monthly income exceeding Rs100,000 find that it is a necessity to fly first class
when traveling? Use a 10% significance level for the test.

9) A manufacturer claimed that least 95% of the equipment which he supplied to a factory conformed to
specifications. An examination of a sample of 200 pieces of equipment revealed that 18 were faulty.
Test his claim at a significance level of 0.05 of 0.01.

10) Before an increase in excise duty, on tea, 400 people out of 500 persons were found to be tea drinkers.
After an increase in duty, 400 people were tea drinkers in a sample of 600 people. State whether there
is a significant decrease in the consumption of tea.

11) A manufacturer of storm windows samples 250 new homes and found that 142 of them had storm
windows. Another sample of size 320 of older homes was taken; 150 of them had storm windows.
The manufacturer believes that the proportion of new home that have storm windows is larger than the
proportion of older homes that have storm windows. Do the sample statistics support the
manufacturer’s claim at the 0.05 significance level?

11) On a certain day 74 trains were arrives on time at Delhi and 83 were late. At New Delhi 65 on
time, 107 late. Is there any difference in the proportions arriving on time at the 2 stations?

12) A soap manufacturing company was distributing a particular brand of soap through a large no of retail
shops. Before a heavy advertisement campaign, the mean sales per week per shop were 140 dozens.
After the campaign, a sample of 26 shops was taken and the mean sales was found to be 147 dozens
with s.d =16. Can you consider the advertisement effective?

13) A delivery service is considering delivering Arun’s ice-cream if the average order in a suburban area
is greater than 1.5 liters of ice-cream. A random sample of 23 household order yield a mean of
1.7liters with a standard deviation of 0.5 liters. Test at 0.05 significance level that the mean
household order is greater than 1.5 liters.

14) A random sample of single 16 has 53 as means. The sum of the squares of the deviations taken
from the mean is 150; can this sample be regarded as taken from the population having 56 as mean?
Obtain 95% and 99% confidence limits of the mean population.
15) A chemical products distributor is faced with the continuing problem of broken glassware and flasks.
He has determined some additional shipping precaution and asked the purchasing director to inform
the supplies of these precautions. Data for 8 suppliers are given below in terms of average number of
broken items per shipment. Do the data indicates, at a =0.05,that the new measures have lowered the
average number of broken item?

Supplier 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Before 16 12 18 7 14 19 6
After 14 13 12 6 9 15 8

16) The average number of articles to be produced by 2 machine per day are 200 and 250 with S.D of 20
and 25 respectively on the basis of record, of 25 days production can you regard the machines
equally efficient at 1% level of significance.

17) A controversial ordinance banning billboards will come before the new paltz city council next week.
A census of the voters would have found that 68% favor a ban or billboards within the city limits.
You work in the city manager’s office and have been assigned to conduct a random poll of 400 voters.
What is the probability that the sample proportion of voters favoring such a ban will be
(a) Within 0.01 of the true proportion?
(b) Within 0.02 of the true proportion?
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18) Suppose in example 17 (previous problem). The city manager’s office had conducted a random poll of
500 voters. What is the probability that the sampler proportion of voters favoring the billboard ban
will be
(a) Within 0.01 of the True proportion?
(b) Within 0.02 of the True proportion?

19) Records at western power show that 13% of customers pay their monthly bills with a postal money
order. If you take a sample of 300 accounts, what is the probability that a sample proportion of those
paying with a postal money order will be within 0.03 of the true proportion?

20) Records at western power show that 57% of customers consume more than 275kw hours per month.
If you take a sample of 300 accounts, what is the probability that a sample proportion of those
consuming 275kw hours per month will be within 0.03 of the true proportion?

21) Last week, the 12,983 employees at Quantity Two Corporation worked a mean of 38.2 hours, with a
S.D of 5.8 hours, as head of personal; you take a random sample of 50 time awards. What is the
probability that the sample mean will be within 1 hour of the true mean?

22) The home mortgages at First Home savings and loan have a mean balance due of $ 37,594 and a of
100 mortgage accounts. What is the probability that the sample mean will be?
a. Within $ 1000 of the true mean?
b. Within $ 800 of the true mean?

23. A sample of 30 light tubes fielded a standard deviation of 90 hours running time where as the long
experience with the particular brand showed standard deviation of 105 hours using a  0.05 , test it
there is any difference is Standard deviation

26. Two impendent samples of signs 9 and 8 gave the sum of squares of deviation from their respective
means as 160 and 91 can the samples be regarded as drawn from the normal population with equal
variance
F0.05 (8,7)  3.73
F0.05 (7,8)  3.50

27. The following data gives the number of aircraft accidents that occurred during the various days of the
week. Find whether the accidents uniformly distributes over the week

Days SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

No Of 14 16 8 20 11 9 14
accidents

29. A lawn-equipment shop is considering adding a brand of lawn movers to its merchandise. The
manager of the shop believes that the highest quality lawn movers are Trooper, lawn eater and Nipper,
and he needs to decide whether it makes a difference which of these three shop adds to its existing
merchandise. Twenty owners of each of these three types of lawn movers are randomly sampled and
asked how satisfied they are with their lawn movers

Lawn mover Very satisfied Satisfied Not satisfied total

Trooper 11 6 3 20
Lawn eater 13 4 3 20
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Nipper 13 6 1 20

Are the owners of the lawn movers homogeneous in their response of the survey? Use a 5% significance
level.

30. In an industry, 200 workers, employed for a specific job, were classified according their performance
and training received /not received to test independence of a specific training and performance. The
dates is

Performance
Good Not Good Total
Trained 100 50 150
Untrained 20 30 50
Total 120 80 200
5% level of significance
31. To see whether silicon chip sales are independent of where the U.S economy is in the business cycle,
data have been collected on the weekly sales of Zippy Chippy, a silicon Valley firm , and on whether the
U.S economy was rising to a cycle peak, falling to a cycle through, of at a cycle through the results are
Economically weakly chip sales:
High Medium Low Total
At Peak 8 3 7 18
Rising 4 8 5 17
Falling 8 4 3 15
Total 20 15 15 50
32. A completely randomized design experiments with 10 plota and 3 treatments gave the following results.
Analyze the results for treatment effects.
Plot No : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Treatment : A B C A C C A B A B
Yield : 5 4 3 7 5 1 3 4 1 7

33. The following figures relate to production in kgs. of three variables A, B, C of wheat sown on 12 plots.
A 14 16 18
B 14 13 15 22
C 18 16 19 19 20
Is there any significant difference in the production of the varieties

UNIT-III SOLUTION OF EQUATIONS AND EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS

PART – A
1. 1. If g(x) is continuous in [a,b] then under what condition the iterative method x = g(x) has unique
solution in [a,b].
2. By Newton’s method find an iterative formula to find 1/N.
3. Find the positive root of x3 + 5x – 3 = o usind fixed point iteration method with 0.6 as first
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1 3 
4. Find inverse of A =   by Gauss – Jordan method.

 2 7
5. State the convergence and order of convergence for method of false position.
6. Why Gauss Seidel iteration is a method of successive corrections.
7. Compare Gauss Jacobi and Gauss Siedel methods for solving linear system of the form AX = B.
8. State the conditions for convergence of Gauss Siedel method for solving a system of equations.
9. Find an iterative formula to find N where N is a positive number.
10. Compare Gaussian elimination method and Gauss-Jordan method.
11. What type of eigen value can be obtained using power method.
12. State the order of convergence and convergence condition for Newton Raphson,s method.

1 2 
13. Find the dominant eigen value of A =
3 4 by power method.


14. How is the numerically smallest eigen value of A obtained.
15. State two difference between direct and iterative methods for solving system of equations.

PART - B
1. 1 Consider the non – linear system x2 – 2x – y +0.5 =0 and x2+4y2 – 4 = 0. Use Newton – Raphson
method with the starting value (x0, y0) = (2.00, 0.25) and compute (x1, y1), (x2, y2) and (x3, y3) .

2. Fins the real root of xex – 3 = 0 by regula - falsi method.

3. Find the real root using method of false position for x3 – 2x – 5 = 0 coreect to three decimal places.

2 1 0
  1
4. Find all the eigen values of the matrix  1 2  by power method (Apply only 3 iterations).
0
 1 2 

5. Use Newton’s backward difference formula to construct an interpolating polynomial of degree 3 for
the data:
f( - 0.75) = - 0.0718125, f( - 0.5) = - 0.02475, f( - 0.25) = - 0.3349375 and f(0) = 1.101. Hence find f
1
(- ).
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6. Solve the system of equations using Gauss Seidel iterative methods.
20x – y – 2z = 17, 3x + 20y – z = -18, 2x – 3y +20z = 25.

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7.Find the largest eigen values and its corresponding vector of the matrix
1 3  1
3 2 4
  by power method.

 1 4 10 

2 2 3
 1
8. Using Gauss- Jordan obtain the inverse of the matrix 2 1
1 3 5

9. Using Gauss Seidel method solve the system of equations starting with the values x = 1 , y = -2 and z
= 3,
x + 3y + 5z = 173.61, x – 27y + 2z = 71.31, 41x – 2y + 3z = 65.46

10. Solve the following equations by Jacobi’s iteration method

x + y + z = 9, 2x – 3y + 4z = 13, 3x + 4y + 5z = 40.

UNIT-IV: INTERPOLATION & APPROXIAMTION

PART – A
1. 1. Construct a linear interpolating polynomial given the points (x 0,y0) and (x1,y1).
2. Obtain the interpolation quadratic polynomial for the given data by using Newton’s forward
difference formula.
X: 0 2 4 6
Y : -3 5 21 45
3. Obtain the divided difference table for the following data.
X : -1 0 2 3
Y : -8 3 1 12
4. Find the polynomial which takes the following values.
X : 0 1 2
Y : 1 2 1
5. Define forward, backward, central differences and divided differences.
6. Evaluate 10 (1-x) (1-2x) (1-3x)--------(1-10x), by taking h=1.
7. Show that the divided difference operator  is linear.
8. State the order of convergence of cubic spline.
9. What are the natural or free conditions in cubic spline.
10. Find the cubic spline for the following data
X:0 2 4 6
Y:1 9 21 41
11. State the properties of divided differences.
1 1
12. Show that  ( ) 
3
.
bcd a abcd
13. Find the divided differences of f(x) = x3 + x + 2 for the arguments 1,3,6,11.
14. State Newton’s forward and backward interpolating formula.
15. Using Lagranges find y at x = 2 for the following

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X:0 1 3 4 5
Y:0 1 81 256 625

16. What the errors in Trapezoidal and Simpson’s rule.

17. Write Simpson’s 3/8 rule assuming 3n intervals.
18. State Simpson’s 1/3 and Simpson’s 3/8 formula.
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Using trapezoidal rule evaluate  sin xdx

0
by dividing into six equal parts

PART - B
1. Using Lagranges interpolation formula find y(10) given that y(5) = 12, y(6) = 13,
y(9) = 14 and y(11) = 16.

2. Find the missing term in the following table

x:0 1 2 3 4
y : 1 3 9 - 81

3. From the data given below find the number of students whose weight is between
60 to 70.
Wt (x) : 0-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120
No of
students : 250 120 100 70 50

4. From the following table find y(1.5) and y’(1) using cubic spline.
X : 1 2 3
Y : -8 -1 18

5. Given sin 450 = 0.7071, sin 500 = 0.7660, sin 550 = 0.8192, sin 600 = 0.8660, find
sin 520 using Newton’s forward interpolating formula.

6. Given log 10 654 = 2.8156, log 10 658 = 2.8182, log 10 659 = 2.8189, log 10 661 =
2.8202, find using Lagrange’s formula the value of log 10 656.

7. Fit a Lagrangian interpolating polynomial y = f(x) and find f(5)

x:1 3 4 6
y : -3 0 30 132

8. Find y(12) using Newton’ forward interpolation formula given

x : 10 20 30 40 50
y : 46 66 81 93 101

9. Obtain the root of f(x) = 0 by Lagrange’s inverse interpolation given that f(30) = -30,
f(34) = -13, f(38) = 3, f(42) = 18.

10. Fit a natural cubic spline for the following data

x:0 1 2 3
y:1 4 0 -2

11. Derive Newton’s divided difference formula.

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12. The following data are taken from the steam table:
Temp0 c : 140 150 160 170 180
Pressure : 3.685 4.854 6.502 8.076 10.225
Find the pressure at temperature t = 1420 and at t = 1750

13. Find the sixth term of the sequence 8,12,19,29,42.

14. From the following table of half yearly premium for policies maturing at different ages, estimate the
premium for policies maturing at the age of 46.
Age x : 45 50 55 60 65
Premium y : 114.84 96.16 83.32 74.48 68.48
15. Form the divided difference table for the following data
x : -2 0 3 5 7 8
y : -792 108 -72 48 -144 -252
dxdy
16.Evaluate   1 x  y by Simpson’s 1/3 rule with x  y = 0.5 where 0<x,y<1.
2 2
dx dy
17.Evaluate I = 
1 1
x y
by using Trapezoidal rule, rule taking h= 0.5 and h=0.25.

2 2
dx dy
18.Evaluate  x
1 1
2
 y2
numerically with h= 0.2 along x-direction and k = 0.25 along y direction.

UNIT-V: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR APPLICATION

PART – A
1. 1 By Taylor series, find y(1.1) given y  = x + y, y(1) = 0.
2. Find the Taylor series upto x3 term satisfying 2 y   y  x  1, y (0)  1 .
dy
3. Using Taylor series method find y at x = 0.1 if  x 2 y  1, y (0)  1 .
dx
4. State Adams – Bashforth predictor and corrector formula.
5. What is the condition to apply Adams – Bashforth method ?
dy
6. Using modified Euler’s method, find y (0.1) if  y 2  x 2 , y (0)  1 .
dx
7. Write down the formula to solve 2 nd order differential equation using Runge-Kutta method of 4 th
order.
8. In the derivation of fourth order Runge-Kutta formula, why is it called fourth order.
9. Compare R.K. method and Predictor methods for the solution of Initial value problems.
dy
10. Using Euler’s method find the solution of the IVP  log( x  y ), y (0)  2 at x  0.2 taking
dx
h  0.2 .

11. What is the error for solving Laplace and Poissson’s equation by finite difference method.

d2y
12. Obtain the finite difference scheme fore the difference equations 2 + y = 5.
dx 2
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PART - B
dy
13. The differential equation  y  x2 is satisfied by
dx
y(0)  1, y(0.2)  1.12186, y(0.4)  1.46820, y(0.6)  1.7379 .Compute the value of
y(0.8) by Milne’s predictor - corrector formula.
14. By means of Taylor’s series expension, find y at x = 0.1,and x = 0.2 correct to three decimals places,
dy
given  2 y  3e x , y(0) = 0.
dx
15. Given y   xy   y  0, y (0)  1, y (0)  0, find the value of y(0.1) by using R.K.method of fourth
order.
dy
16. Using Taylor;s series method find y at x = 0.1, if  x 2 y  1 , y(0)=1.
dx
dy
17. Given  x 2 (1  y ) , y(1) = 1, y(1.1) = 1.233, y(1.2) = 1.548, y(1.3)=1.979, evaluate y(1.4) by
dx
Adam’s- Bashforth method.
dy y 2  x 2
18. Using Runge-Kutta method of 4th order, solve  with y(0)=1 at x=0.2.
dx y 2  x 2
19. Using Milne’s method to find y(1.4) given that 5 xy   y 2  2  0 given that
y (4)  1, y (4.1)  1.0049, y (4.2)  1.0097, y (4.3)  1.0143 .
20. Given find y(0.8) by Milne’s predictor-corrector method taking h = 0.2.
dy
21. Using R.K.Method of order 4, find y for x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 given that  xy  y 2 , y (0)  1 also find
dx
the solution at x = 0.4 using Milne’s method.
dy
22. Solve  y  x 2 , y(0) = 1.
dx
Find y(0.1) and y(0.2) by R.K.Method of order 4.
Find y(0.3) by Euler’s method.
Find y(0.4) by Milne’s predictor-corrector method.
23. Solve y   0.1(1  y 2 ) y   y  0 subject to y(0)  0, y (0)  1 using fourth order Runge-
Kutta Method.
Find y(0.2) and y (0.2) . Using step size x  0.2 .
xy
24. Using 4th order RK Method compute y for x = 0.1 given y   given y(0) = 1 taking h=0.1.
1 x2
dy
25. Determine the value of y(0.4) using Milne’s method given  xy  y 2 , y (0)  1 , use Taylors
dx
series to get the value of y at x = 0.1, Euler’s method for y at x = 0.2 and RK 4 th order method for y at
x=0.3.
dy
26. Consider the IVP  y  x 2  1, y (0)  0.5
dx
a. Using the modified Euler method, find y(0.2).
b. Using R.K.Method of order 4, find y(0.4) and y(0.6).
c. Using Adam- Bashforth predictor corrector method, find y(0.8).
27. Consider the second order IVP y   2 y   2 y  e 2t S int, with y(0) = -0.4 and y’(0)=-0.6.
a. Using Taylor series approximation, find y(0.1).
b. Using R.K.Method of order 4, find y(0.2).

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28. Solve U xx = U tt with boundary condition u(0,t) = u(4,t) and the initial condition

u t (x,0) = 0 , u(x,0)=x(4-x) taking h =1, k = ½ (solve one period)

29. Solve xy II + y = 0 , y(1) =1,y(2) = 2, h = 0.25 by finite difference method.

30. Solve the boundary value problem xy II -2y + x = 0, subject to y(2) = 0

=y(3).Find y(2.25),y(2.5),y(2.75).

y 2 y
31. Solve the vibration problem  4 2 subject to the boundary conditions
t x

1
y(0,t)=0,y(8,0)=0 and y(x,0)= x(8-x).Find y at x=0,2,4,6.Choosing  x = 2,
2

1
t= up compute to 4 time steps.
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