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MA- 8452 STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL METHODS

TUTORIAL PROBLEMS

UNIT – I

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

DAY I

PART -A

1. Define Type I and Type II errors.

2. State any two properties of t- distribution.

PART -B
3. Samples of two types of electric light bulbs were tested for length of life and the following data
were obtained
Type I Type II
Sample size 𝑛1 =8 𝑛2= 7
Sample mean 𝑥1
̅̅̅=1234 hrs 𝑥2 =1036 hrs
̅̅̅
Sample S.D 𝜎1 =36 hrs 𝜎2 =40 hrs

4. Time taken by workers in performing a job are given below.

Method I 20 16 26 27 23 22

Method II 27 33 42 35 34 38

Test whether there is any significant difference between the variances of time distribution.

5. A random sample of 10 boys has the following IQ’s 70, 120 ,110 ,101 ,88 ,83 ,95 ,98 ,107 ,100.
Do these data support the assumption of a population mean IQ of 100?
6. Two researchers adopted different sampling techniques while investigating the same group of
students to find the number of students falling in different intelligence levels. The result are as
follows:
Number of students in each level
Researchers Below Avg Avg Above avg Genius
X 86 60 44 10 200
Y 40 33 25 2 100
126 93 69 12 300
Would you say that the sampling techniques adopted by the two researchers are independent.
 DAY 2
PART-A

1. Distinguish between RBD and LSD.

2. Write Anova table for one factor classification.

PART-B

3. Two random samples gave the following results.

Sample Size Sample mean Sum of squares of deviations
From the mean
1 10 15 90

2 12 14 108

4. In a certain sample of 2000 items, 1400 families are consumers of tea. Out of 1800 Hindu
families 1236 families consumes tea. Use-chi-square test to test whether there is any significant
difference between consumption of tea among Hindu and non-Hindu families.

5. The following data is collected on two characters. Based on this, can you say that there is no
relation between smoking and literacy
SMOKERS NON – SMOKERS

LITERATES 83 57
ILLITERATES 45 68

6. Two independent samples of 8 and 7 items respectively had the following values of the variable

Sample 1 9 11 13 11 15 9 12 14

Sample 2 10 12 10 14 9 8 10 -

UNIT-II

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

DAY-3
PART-A

1. Compare RBD and LSD.

2. What is the aim of design of experiments?
 PART-B
3. Analyze the variance in the Latin Square of yields (in Kgs) of paddy where P,Q,R,S denote the
different methods of cultivation.

S 122 P 121 R 123 Q 122

Q 124 R 123 P 122 S 125
P 120 Q 119 S 120 R 121
R 122 S 123 Q 121 P 122
Examine whether the different methods of cultivation have given significantly different yields
4. Analyze the Random Block Design at 5% level of significance
Treatment Variety
1 2 3
1 8 10 12
2 2 6 7
3 4 10 9
4 3 5 9

5. A company appoints 4 salesman A, B, C and D and observes their sales in 3 seasons. Summer,
Winter and Monsoon. The figures (in lakhs of Rs. ) are given in the following table.

Salesman

Season A B C D

Summer 45 40 38 37

Winter 43 41 45 38

Monsoon 39 39 41 41

Carry out an analysis of variance.

DAY-4
PART-A
1. State two differences between CRD and RBD.
2. What is meant by a completely randomized design?
3. State two differences between CRD and RBD.
PART-B
1. In an experiment to test the differences between six machines producing bolts, 4 bolts produced
by each machine were selected at random and found to have diameters as follows(in mm). Can
we conclude that there is no significant difference between the machines in production so far as
the diameters of the product?

Machines

I : 64 65 65 66
 II : 68 67 69 70

III : 68 67 67 66

IV : 74 77 74 70

V: 67 66 65 65

VI : 65 65 66 66

2. Three varieties A, B, C of a crop are tested in a randomized block design with four
replications. The plot yields are given in kilograms as below.

A6 C5 A8 B9

C8 A4 B6 C9

B7 B6 C 10 A6

Analyze the experimental yield and state your conclusion.

3. The result of an RBD experiment on 3 blocks with 4 treatments A, B ,C , D are tabulated

here. Carry out an analysis of variance.

Blocks Treatment effects

I A36 D35 C21 B36

II D32 B29 A28 C31

III B28 C29 D29 A26

4. The following table shows lives in hours of four brands of electric lamps brand
A 1610 1610 1650 1680 1700 1720 1800
B 1580 1640 1640 1700 1750
C 1460 1550 1600 1620 1640 1660 1740 1820
D 1510 1520 1530 1570 1600 1680

5. Five breeds of cattle B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 were fed on four different relations R1, R2, R3, R4. Gains
in Kg. over a given period were recorded and given below

B1 B2 B3 B4 B5

R1 1.9 2.2 2.6 1.8 2.1

R2 2.5 1.9 2.3 2.6 2.2

R3 1.7 1.9 2.2 2.0 2.1

 R4 2.1 1.8 2.5 2.3 2.4

Is there a significant difference between (i) breeds and (ii) rations

Unit-3

SOLUTIONS OF EQUATIONS AND EIGEN VALUE PROBLEMS

DAY-5

 2 1 1
 
1. Find the inverse of the matrix A   3 2 3  using Gauss Jordan method .
 1 4 9
 
2. Write the formula for Newton Raphson method.

3. Compare Gauss elimination and Gauss-Jacobi methods.

4. Solve the following system of equations using Gaussian elimination method.

x +y + z = 9 ; 2x - 3y + 4z = 13 ; 3x + 4y + 5z = 40.

5. Solve the following system of equation using Gauss seidel method

10x + 2y + z = 9 ; x + 10y - z= - 22 ; -2x + 3y + 10z = 22 .

6. Evaluate 12 to four decimal places by Newton – Raphson method.

DAY-6

1. Derive Newton’s algorithm for finding the pth root of a number N.

2. When we should not use Newton Raphson Method.
3. Compare Gauss Jacobi with Gauss Jordan.
4. Find the real positive root of 3x-cos x -1 = 0 by Newton’s method correct to 6 decimal places.
 1 3  1
 
5. Determine the largest eigen value and corresponding eigen vector of the matrix  3 2 4 
  1 4 10 
 
6. Obtain Newton’s iterative formula for finding N where N is the positive real number. Hence
evaluate 142
7. Using Gauss Jacobi Solve 4x+y+z=6; x+4y+z=6 ; x+y+4z=6.
 UNIT-4

INTERPOLATION, NUMERICAL DIFFERNTIATION, NUMERICAL INTEGRATION

DAY-7

1.
From the following table of half yearly premium for policies maturing at different ages,
estimate the premium for policies maturing at age 46 and 63
Age x 45 50 55 60 65
Premiumu 114.84 96.16 83.32 74.48 68.48
my

2. Find a polynomial of degree 2 for the data by Newton’s Forward difference method
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
y 1 2 4 7 11 16 22 29
3.
x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
f(x) 1 8 27 64 125 216 343 512
Estimate f(7.5) using Newton’s formula.
4. Use Lagrange’s interpolation formulae to fit a polynomial to the data

X 0 1 3 4

y -12 0 6 12

5. Using Newton’s forward interpolation formula, find the polynomial f(x) satisfying the
data. Hence find f (2).
x 0 5 10 15
y 14 379 1444 3584