ENGG1811 Computing for Engineers (20T2)

Sample Final Exam

• Time allowed: 3 hours.

• This examination is worth 30% of the overall assessment for this course.

• In this exam, there are 5 questions and is worth 91 marks. Different questions have different
marks.

• Each question requires you to submit a separate Python program file for marking. Note the
following:

❖ For each question, an associated test file has been provided to help you to test your
code. It is your responsibility to test your code thoroughly before submission.
❖ Submission must be made using the provided web links (like assignment submissions).
❖ Each question requires a specific file name and the submission system will only accept
that particular filename.
❖ Ensure that you save your file before submission. If the submission system accepts your
file, it will run tests on your submitted file.
❖ You can make multiple submissions during the exam. Only the last submitted file will be
assessed.
Question 1 (20 marks)
This question is related to Assignment 1. It consists of Part a and Part b. You are not allowed to use
numpy for this question.

Question 1a (10 marks)

Your task is to write a Python function q1a_func with the following def line:

def q1a_func(a_list,a,b):

where

• The input a_list is a Python list whose entries are of the type int. You can assume that
a_list is non-empty.

• The inputs a and b are of the type int. You can assume that the value of a is less than that of
b.

The function is required to return a value of the bool type.

The function q1a_func should return the bool value True if all the entries in a_list are
greater than or equal to a and less than b; otherwise the function should return False. For example,

• If a_list is [10,5,12], a is 5 and b is 13, then q1a_func should return True.

• If a_list is [10,5,12,11], a is 5 and b is 12, then q1a_func should return False.

• If a_list is [10,5,12,11], a is 6 and b is 13, then q1a_func should return False.

Requirements and testing:

• You must write the function q1a_func in a file with the filename q1a.py. The submission
system will only accept this filename. A template file q1a.py has been provided.

• Your function must be able to work with any non-empty Python list whose entries are of type
int.

• You can use the file test_q1a.py for testing.

• You do not need to submit test_q1a.py.

• Make sure that you save your file before submission.

Submission: You need to submit your solution file q1a.py using a WebCMS weblink,
similar to your assignment submissions.

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Question 1b (10 marks)
Your task is to write a Python function q1b_func with the following def line:

def q1b_func(a_list,m):

where

• The input a_list is a Python list of lists.

• The input m is of the type int.

The function is required to return a list.

We will use an example to explain what the function q1b_func should do. We will refer to the
variable that q1b_func returns as output. The variable output is a list, which can be empty. In
this example, we assume that a_list is the following list of lists:

[[3,4,8],[6,12],[7,8,14],[-1,-6,-9]]

If the maximum value of a list within a_list is less than or equal to m, then the index of that list
should be included as an entry in output; otherwise the index of the list should not be included. The
following examples show what the expected output should be for different values of m.

• If m is 14, then output should be the list [0,1,2,3] (or other lists with the same set of
entries but ordered differently) because the maximum of each list in a_list is less than or
equal to m

• If m is 12, then output should be the list [0,1,3] (order can vary).

• If m is 9, then output should be the list [0,3] or [3,0].

• If m is 7, then output should be the list [3].

• If m is -5, then output should be the list [], which is the empty list.

Requirements and testing:

• You must write the function q1b_func in a file with the filename q1b.py. The submission
system will only accept this filename. A template file q1b.py has been provided.

• Your function must be able to work with any non-empty Python list of lists.

• You can use the file test_q1b.py for testing.

• You do not need to submit test_q1b.py.

• Make sure that you save your file before submission.

Submission: You need to submit your solution file q1b.py using a WebCMS weblink,
similar to your assignment submissions.

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Question 2 (20 marks)
This question is related to Assignment 2. Your task for this question is to write a function to read data
from a file. The function q2_func that you need to write has the following def line:

def q2_func(filename):

where the input filename is a string containing the name of the file to be read.

The function q2_func is to be written to read files with a specific format. One of the sample
files has the name data_file_1.txt and its contents are:

1.6 2.3 4.5 8.9

2.6 1.9 1.7 6.7
1.4 1.5 1.6 1.1
3

The format of the file that q2_func is expected to read is:

• The file has at least 2 lines. There are no empty lines.

• The last line contains only one single numeral which should be interpreted as an int.

• All the lines except the last one (i.e. from the first line to the second last line, inclusively)
contain at least two numerals separated by spaces. These numerals should be interpreted as
float. Within a data file, the number of numerals on each of these lines is the same, e.g. there
are 4 numerals per line in the above example. However, the number of numerals per line can
vary from a data file to another.

The function is expected to return two outputs.

• The first output is a 2-dimensional numpy array. This array comes from the first to the second
last lines of the file. The number of rows in this array equals to the number of lines in the file
minus one. The number of columns in this array equals to the number of numerals per relevant
line. The order of the numerals in the file is the same as that in the numpy array. For the example
file above, the expected output is:

numpy.array([[1.6, 2.3, 4.5, 8.9],

[2.6, 1.9, 1.7, 6.7],
[1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.1]])

• The second output is an int variable. This variable takes the value of the numeral in the last
line of the file. For the example file above, the expected output is 3.

Requirements and testing:

• You must write the function q2_func in a file with the filename q2.py. The submission
system will only accept this filename. A template file q2.py has been provided.

• Your function must be able to work with files with any name in the format stated above.

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 • You can use the file test_q2.py for testing. Two additional data files have been provided for
you to test your code. You can see their filenames and contents below. The files q2.py and
test_q2.py, as well as the three data files, are in the same directory.

• You do not need to submit test_q2.py.

• Make sure that you save your file before submission.

Additional data files available for testing

Filename: sample.txt. Its contents are

8.9 3.7
6.7 9.7
1.1 5.7
1.4 1.5
2.6 1.9
1.9 1.7
51

Filename: somefile.txt. Its contents are

2.6 1.9 1.7 6.7 9.7

102

Submission: You need to submit your solution file q2.py using a WebCMS weblink,
similar to your assignment submissions.

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Question 3 (17 marks)
If a person has a body mass m (measured in kilograms) and height h (measured in metres), then that
person’s body mass index (BMI) (measured in kg/m2 ) is given by:
m
BMI = .
h2
The BMI is commonly used to assess whether a person’s weight is healthy or not. The following
table shows the classification of the health status according to the BMI.

BMI (kg/m2 ) Classification

Less than 18.5 Underweight
Greater than or equal to18.5 and less than 25 Healthy
Greater than or equal to 25 and less than 30 Overweight
Greater than or equal to 30 Obese

For example, a person with a BMI of 25 kg/m2 is considered to be overweight.

Write a Python function that returns the classification of health status (one of the strings ”Un-
derweight”, ”Healthy”, ”Overweight” or ”Obese”), given parameters m and h. The def line of the
function should be:

def q3_func(m,h):

Requirements and testing:

• You must write the function q3_func in a file with the filename q3.py. The submission
system will only accept this filename. A template file q3.py has been provided.

• You can assume that we will only use positive values of m and h for testing.

• You can use the file test_q3.py for testing.

• You do not need to submit test_q3.py.

• Make sure that you save your file before submission.

Submission: You need to submit your solution file q3.py using a WebCMS weblink,
similar to your assignment submissions.

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Question 4 (17 marks)
Note: The maximum mark that you can received for this question depends on whether you use
loops to solve the problem or not. If you do not use loops, you can get the maximum; otherwise
if you do use loops (either for or while), then the most you can get is 70% of the maximum.

Your task is to write a Python function q4_func with the following def line:

def q4_func(x,t):

where the first input x is a 1-dimensional numpy array and the second input t is a scalar of the
type float. The function is required to compute and return a numpy array which has the same shape as
x. In the following description, we will refer to the numpy array to be returned by the variable name z.

Let x[i] and z[i] be the element indexed by i in, respectively, the arrays x and z. The
relationship between x[i] and z[i] is given by the following pseduo-code:

if x[i] > t
z[i] = 1 # one
else if x[i] < -t
z[i] = -1 # minus one
else
z[i] = x[i] / t

For examples:

• If x[i] is 10 and t is 5.2, then z[i] should take on the value of 1.

• If x[i] is -20 and t is 5.2, then z[i] should take on the value of -1.

• If x[i] is -2.6 and t is 5.2, then z[i] should take on the value of -0.5.

Requirements and testing:

• You must write the function q4_func in a file with the filename q4.py. The submission
system will only accept this filename. A template file q4.py has been provided.

• Your function must be able to work with 1-dimensional numpy array x of any shape.

• You can assume we will always use positive t for testing.

• You can use the file test_q4.py for testing.

• You do not need to submit test_q4.py.

• Make sure that you save your file before submission.

Submission: You need to submit your solution file q4.py using a WebCMS weblink,
similar to your assignment submissions.

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Question 5 (17 marks)
Your task is to write a Python function q5_func with the following def line:

def q5_func(array,n):

where
• The input array is a 1-dimensional numpy array
• The input n is a positive integer. You can assume that the value of n is less than or equal to the
number of entries in the array array.
The function is required to return a 1-dimensional numpy array with n elements. In the following,
we will use output to denote the array that the function should return. We will now describe the
relation between the elements of the arrays array and output.

For this description, we will assume that array has m entries where m is a positive integer bigger
than or equal to n. Let s be the integer part of the quotient when m is divided by n. That is, you first
divide m by n, and then discard the decimal part. For examples,
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• If m is 14 and n is 4, then s is 3. This is because 4 = 3.5 and the decimal part of 0.5 is
discarded.
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• If m is 11 and n is 5, then s is 2. This is because 5 = 2.2 and the decimal part of 0.2 is
discarded.
• If m is 10 and n is 2, then s is 5.

The relation between the elements of array and output are:

• output[0] is the sum of array[0], array[n], ... array[(s-1)*n]
• output[1] is the sum of array[1], array[1+n], ... array[1+(s-1)*n]
• ...
• output[n-1] is the sum of array[n-1], array[n-1+n], ... array[n-1+(s-1)*n]
The above relationships mean that each element of the array output is given by the sum of s
elements in the array array.

There are four test cases in the file test_q5.py and we have explained how the output is com-
puted from the inputs as comments in the file.

Requirements and testing:

• You must write the function q5_func in a file with the filename q5.py. The submission
system will only accept this filename. A template file q5.py has been provided.
• Your function must be able to work with any 1-dimensional numpy array, and any value of
positive integer n. You can assume that for all the tests, the value of n is no more than the
number of elements in the array and the array is not empty.

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• You can use the file test_q5.py for testing.

• You do not need to submit test_q5.py.

• Make sure that you save your file before submission.

Submission: You need to submit your solution file q5.py using a WebCMS weblink,
similar to your assignment submissions.

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