Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology,

Vadapudupatti, Theni - 625 531

(Approved by AICTE, New Delhi and Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai)

Question Bank(Theory)
For the Academic Year 2022- 23 (Odd/Even Semester)
Mathematics/
Staff Name Mrs.M.Mahalakshmi Dept. / Designation Strength 60
AP
Course/Branch BE/CSE Year / Semester I/II Credit 04
Course Code/ Subject
C201/MA3251/BSC Subject Name Statistics and Numerical Methods
Code/ Choice

PART – A

UNIT – I: TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS

1. What is statistical hypothesis?

2. Define null and alternate hypothesis.
3. Write Type I and Type II errors.
4. What is meant by level of significance?
5. Define standard error and critical regions.
6. What are the assumptions in t – distribution?
7. State the important properties of the t – distribution.
8. When do we use the t – distribution?
9. Write any two applications of t – distribution.
10. Write any three applications of Chi-Square distribution.
11. Define Chi-Square.
12. Write the condition for the application of χ 2 test.
13. Write any three applications of F – distribution.
14. State the important properties of the F – distribution.
15. Define sampling distribution.
16. Define Chi-Square test of goodness of fit.

UNIT – II: DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

1. What do you understand by “Design of Experiment”?

2. What is the aim of design of experiments?
3. State the assumptions involved in ANOVA.
4. Write the ANOVA table for one way classification.
5. Compare one way classification model with two way classification model.
6. State the basic principles of Design of Experiments.
7. What is meant by Latin Square?
 8. What are the advantages of a Latin Square design?
9. State the merits of Latin Square design.
10. Define RBD.
11. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Randomized Block Design.
12. State the advantages of a Factorial experiment over a simple experiment.
13. What are the advantages of a Completely Randomized experimental design?
14. State the 22 factorial designs.

UNIT – III: SOLUTION OF EQUATIONS & EIGEN VALUE PROBLEMS

1. Write the formula for Newton-Raphson method.

2. State the order of convergence and convergence condition for Newton’s method.
3. Define algebraic and transcendental equations.
4. Find an iterative formula to find √ N by Newton’s method.
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5. Find an iterative formula to find , N ≠ 0 ,by Newton’s method.
N
6. Solve by Gauss Jordan method 2x+y=3; x-2y=-1.
7. State the principle used in Gauss Elimination method.
8. State the principle used in Gauss Jordan method.
9. Compare Gauss Elimination and Gauss Jordan method.
10. Compare Gauss Jacobi and Gauss Seidel methods.
11. Distinguish between Direct and Indirect methods.
12. Explain the term ‘Pivot Element’.

13. Find the dominant Eigen value of [ 11 11] by Power method.

UNIT – IV: INTERPOLATION, NUMERICAL DIFFERENTIATION & NUMERICAL INTEGRATION

1. What is the need of Newton’s and Lagrange’s interpolation formula?
2. State the formula to find the second order derivative using the forward differences.
3. Write down the Lagrange’s interpolating formula for interpolation and state its uses.
4. State the use of Lagrange’s interpolation form.
5. Use 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
6. Create a forward difference table for the following data and state the degree of
polynomial for the same.
x: 0 1 2 3
y f (x) : -1 0 3 8

7. State any two properties of divided differences.

8. Show that the divided difference of second order can be expressed as the quotient of
 two determinants of third order.
9. Form the divided difference table for the following data:
x: 5 15 22
y: 7 36 160
10. What is inverse interpolation?
11. Specify the Newton’s backward difference formulae for dy/dx and d2y/dx2.
12. Compare Simpson’s 1/3 rule with Trapezoidal method.
13. Write down the Simpson’s 1/3 rule in numerical integration.
14. Write down the errors in Trapezoidal and Simpson’s rules of numerical integration.
1
dx
15. Evaluate ∫ by Trapezoidal rule, dividing the range into 4 equal parts.
0.5 x
2
16. Evaluate ∫ 1+dxx 2 by Trapezoidal rule, taking h 0.5.
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UNIT – V: NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

1. Bring out the merits and demerits of Taylor series method.

2. State the advantages of Runge-Kutta method over Taylor series method.
3. State the merits of RK – method over Taylor series method.
4. Use the Runga-Kutta fourth order method to find the value of y when x 1 given that
dy y−x
y 1 when x 0 and that = .
dx y+ x
dy 2 2
5. Find y(0.1) by Euler’s method, if =x + y , Y(0) = 1.
dx
6. Using Euler’s method, determine the value of y(0.01) if yy subject to y(0) 1 .
7. Compute y at x 0.25by Modified Euler method given y2xy, y (0) 1.
dy 2
8. Given =x + y , Y(0) = 1, Determine y(0.02) using Euler’s modified method.
dx
dy
9. Using Taylor’s series find y(0.1) for = y−x .
dx
dy 2
10. Using Taylor series method, find y at x 0.1,0.2 given =x − y , y(0) = 1,
dx
(Correct to 4 decimal places).
dy 3
11. Using Taylor’s method, find y at x 1.1 given =x + y , y(1) =1.
dx
12. Write the Milne’s predictor-corrector formula.
13. Write the Adam – Bashforth’s predictor-corrector formula.