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Subject- Numerical Methods (BCA-504)

Important Questions
Numerical Methods – Important Questions
Unit I: Roots of Equations
1. Find a real root of the equation x3 − 4x − 9 = 0 using the Bisection method,
correct to three decimal places.
2. Use the False Position method to find a root of x3 + x − 1 = 0 correct to
four decimal places.
3. Apply the Newton-Raphson method to find a root of the equation
x log10 (x) = 1.2, correct to three decimal places.
4. Find a positive root of 3x − cos(x) − 1 = 0 using the Newton-Raphson
method.
5. Perform four iterations of the Bisection method to find a root of x3 −x−1 =
0 in the interval [1].
6. Use the False Position method to find the root of x2 − loge (x) − 12 = 0.
7. Find the root of x3 − 5x + 3 = 0 that lies between 1 and 2 using the
Newton-Raphson method.
8. Find a real root of the equation x3 − 3x + 1 = 0 using the Bisection method.
9. Use the Newton-Raphson method to find a root of x4 − x − 10 = 0.
10. Find a root of xex = 1 using the False Position method.
11. Perform two iterations of the Newton-Raphson method to find the square
root of 10.
12. Find the cube root of 24 using the Newton-Raphson method.
13. Solve x3 = 2x + 5 for a positive root by the Bisection method.
14. Use the False Position method to find a real root of x3 − 2x − 5 = 0.
15. Find a root of x3 − x2 − 1 = 0 using the Newton-Raphson method.
16. Find the smallest positive root of the equation x − tan(x) = 0 by the
Bisection method.
17. Use the Newton-Raphson method to find a root of x3 + 3x − 5 = 0.
18. Find a real root of 2x − log10 (x) = 7 using the False Position method.
19. Use the Bisection method to find a root of e−x = 10x.
20. Solve for a positive root of x3 − 9x + 1 = 0 using the Newton-Raphson
method.

Unit II: Interpolation and Extrapolation

21. Given f (1) = 2, f (2) = 4, and f (4) = 16, find the value of f (3) using
Lagrange's interpolation formula.
22. Construct a forward difference table for f (x) = x3 for x = 1, 2, 3, 4.
23. Use Newton's forward interpolation formula to find y at x = 2.5 from the
data: (0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 5), (3, 10).
24. Use Newton's backward interpolation formula to find y at x = 2.5 from
the data: (0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 5), (3, 10).
25. Find the polynomial which fits the data (0, −12), (1, 0), (3, 6), (4, 12) using
Newton's divided difference formula.
26. Apply Gauss's forward formula to find the value of f (3.75) from the data:
f (2.5) = 24.145, f (3.0) = 22.043, f (3.5) = 20.225, f (4.0) = 18.644.

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 27. Use Stirling's formula to find y28 given y20 = 49225, y25 = 48316, y30 =
47236, y35 = 45926, y40 = 44306.
28. Apply Bessel's formula to find the value of y at x = 27.5 from the data:
y25 = 375, y26 = 342, y27 = 311, y28 = 282.
29. Use Laplace-Everett's formula to find f (1.15) given f (1) = 1.000, f (1.1) =
1.049, f (1.2) = 1.096, f (1.3) = 1.140.
30. Given the values (5, 12), (6, 13), (9, 14), (11, 16), find the value of y when
x = 10 using Lagrange's method.
31. Construct the divided difference table for the data (0, 4), (1, 3), (2, 6), (4, 48).
32. Find the missing term in the table: x = [1], y = [1, 3, 9, ?, 81].
33. Estimate the value of f (22) from the data: f (20) = 354, f (25) =
332, f (30) = 291, f (35) = 260, f (40) = 231.
34. Find the value of y at x = 0.23 using Gauss's backward formula from the
data: (0.1, 1.40), (0.2, 1.56), (0.3, 1.76), (0.4, 2.00).
35. Use Newton's forward formula to find the value of sin(52◦ ) from sin(45◦ ) =
0.7071, sin(50◦ ) = 0.7660, sin(55◦ ) = 0.8192, sin(60◦ ) = 0.8660.
36. Find the cubic polynomial that takes the values y(0) = 1, y(1) = 0, y(2) =
1, y(3) = 10.
37. Find f (0.5) using Newton's divided difference formula from the data
(0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 1).
38. Using Stirling's formula, find f (1.22) from the data: f (1.0) =
0.841, f (1.1) = 0.891, f (1.2) = 0.932, f (1.3) = 0.963, f (1.4) = 0.985.
39. Find the value of y at x = 5 using Lagrange's formula from
(1, 2), (2, 3), (4, 5), (7, 10).
40. Using Bessel's formula, find the value of y at x = 2.5 from
(0, 5), (1, 2), (2, 1), (3, 2), (4, 5).

Unit III: Numerical Differentiation and Integration

41. Find the first derivative of f (x) at x = 1.5 from the table: x =
[1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0], y = [3.375, 7.000, 13.625, 24.000, 38.875, 59.000].
R 1 dx
42. Evaluate 0 1+x using the Trapezoidal rule with h = 0.25.
R 6 dx
43. Evaluate 0 1+x2 by using Simpson's one-third rule.
R 5.2
44. Calculate 4 loge (x)dx using Simpson's three-eighth rule.
45. Find the first and second derivatives at x = 0.6 from the table: x =
[0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8], y = [1.58, 1.80, 2.04, 2.33, 2.65].
46. Find the maximum value of y from the data: x = [1], y =
[0, 0.25, 0, 2.25, 16].
R π/2
47. Use the Trapezoidal rule to evaluate 0 sin(x)dx with 6 intervals.
R 1 −x2
48. Evaluate 0 e dx using Simpson's 1/3 rule with h = 0.25.
R 0.3 √
49. Use Simpson's 3/8 rule to evaluate 0 1 − 8x3 dx with h = 0.05.
50. Find the derivative f (1) from the data: f (0) = 1, f (1) = 1, f (2) = 15.
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R2
51. Evaluate 1 dx using the Trapezoidal rule with 4 steps.
R 4 xx
52. Calculate 0 e dx using Simpson's one-third rule with h = 1.

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53. Evaluate 0 1 + x3 dx using the Trapezoidal rule with n = 5.
54. Find f ′ (2.2)
R π from the data: x = [2.2, 2.6, 3.0], y = [0.301, 0.415, 0.477].
55. Evaluate 0 t sin(t)dt using the Trapezoidal rule with four strips.
R 0.6 2
56. Use Simpson's 1/3 rule to find 0 e−x dx by taking seven ordinates.
57. Find the derivative of f (x) at x = 0.4 from the data: f (0.1) =
1.105, f (0.2) = 1.221, f (0.3) = 1.350, f (0.4) = 1.492.
R 1.3 √
58. Evaluate 1 xdx using Simpson's 3/8 rule with h = 0.05.
59. From the data (1, 1), (2, 8), (3, 27), (4, 64), find f ′ (2).
R 10 dx
60. Calculate the value of the integral 2 1+x using the Trapezoidal rule with
h = 2.

Unit IV: Solution of Linear Equations

61. Solve by Gauss Elimination: 2x+y +z = 10, 3x+2y +3z = 18, x+4y +9z =
16.
62. Solve by Gauss-Seidel method: 10x + y + z = 12, 2x + 10y + z = 13, 2x +
2y + 10z = 14.
63. Apply Gauss-Jordan method to solve: x + y + z = 9, 2x − 3y + 4z =
13, 3x + 4y + 5z = 40.
64. Solve by Gauss Elimination with partial pivoting: x + y + z = 6, 3x + 3y +
4z = 20, 2x + y + 3z = 13.
65. Use Gauss-Seidel method to solve: 27x + 6y − z = 85, 6x + 15y + 2z =
72, x + y + 54z = 110.
1 1 1
 

66. Find the inverse of the matrix A = 4 3 −1 using the Gauss-Jordan
3 5 3
method.
67. Solve the system: 8x − 3y + 2z = 20, 4x + 11y − z = 33, 6x + 3y + 12z = 36
using the Gauss-Seidel method.
68. Solve by Gauss Elimination: x + 2y + z = 3, 2x + 3y + 3z = 10, 3x − y + 2z =
13.
69. Apply the Gauss-Jordan method to solve: 10x + y + z = 12, 2x + 10y + z =
13, x + y + 5z = 7.
70. Solve using Gauss-Seidel iteration: 5x−y+z = 10, 2x+4y = 12, x+y+5z =
−1.
71. Solve the system: x + y  = 2, 2x + 3y = 5by Gauss Elimination.
2 −2 4
72. Find the inverse of A =  2 3 2  by the Gauss-Jordan method.
−1 1 −1
73. Solve by Gauss-Seidel method: 4x+y+2z = 4, 3x+5y+z = 7, x+y+3z = 3.
74. Solve the equations 2x + 3y + z = 9, x + 2y + 3z = 6, 3x + y + 2z = 8 by
Gauss Elimination.
75. Use the Gauss-Seidel method to solve: x + y + 54z = 110, 27x + 6y − z =
85, 6x + 15y + 2z = 72.
76. Solve by Gauss-Jordan method: 2x − y + 3z = 9, x + y + z = 6, x − y + z = 2.
77. Find the solution to the system 3x+y−z = 3, 2x−8y+z = −5, x−2y+9z =

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78. Solve by Gauss Elimination: x−y+z = 1, −3x+2y−3z = −6, 2x−5y+4z =
5.
3 −1 1
 

79. Find the inverse of A = −15 6 −5 using Gauss-Jordan method.

5 −2 2
80. Solve the system 10x1 − 2x2 − x3 − x4 = 3, −2x1 + 10x2 − x3 − x4 =
15, −x1 − x2 + 10x3 − 2x4 = 27, −x1 − x2 − 2x3 + 10x4 = −9 by Gauss-
Seidel method.

Unit V: Solution of Differential Equations

81. Given dx
dy
= x + y and y(0) = 1, find y(0.1) using Euler's method with
h = 0.1.
82. Use Picard's method to approximate y when x = 0.1, given that dx
dy
= x+y
and y(0) = 1.
83. Apply the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method to find y(0.2) from dx
dy
= y −x,
y(0) = 2 with h = 0.2.
84. Using Euler's method, find an approximate value of y corresponding to
x = 1 given dx
dy
= x + y and y(0) = 1, with h = 0.2.
85. Use Picard's method to obtain y for x = 0.2, given dx dy
= x − y with
y(0) = 1.
86. Find y(1.1) using the RK4 method given dx dy
= x2 + y 2 and y(1) = 1.5.
Take one step with h = 0.1.
87. Solve dx
dy
= 1 − y with y(0) = 0 using Euler's method for x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3.
88. Use Picard's method to solve dxdy
= y + ex with y(0) = 0, up to the third
approximation.
89. Use the RK4 method to approximate y when x = 0.1 given that dxdy
= x+y 2
and y(0) = 1.
90. Find y(0.1) and y(0.2) using Euler's method for dx
dy
= x2 − y, y(0) = 1.
91. Use Picard's method to find y(0.1) for dx = y+x , y(0) = 1.
dy y−x

92. Apply the RK4 method to find y(0.2) for the equation dy
dx = x+y ,
1
y(0) = 1.
93. Given dx
dy
= y − x2 , y(0) = 1. Find y(0.1) by Euler's method.
94. Solve dx = x + y −
dy
xy, y(0) = 1 for x = 0.1 using Picard's method.
95. Use the RK4 method to find y(0.2) from dx dy
= xy + y 2 , y(0) = 1 with
h = 0.1.
96. Find the value of y for x = 0.4 by Euler's method for dx
dy
= x − 2y, y(0) = 1
with h = 0.2.
97. Using Picard's method, find the value of y at x = 0.1 for dx dy
= 1 + xy,
y(0) = 1.
98. Use the RK4 method to solve (1 + x2 ) dxdy
+ y 2 = 0, y(0) = 1 at x = 0.1.
99. Given dx = z, dx = −y with y(0) = 1, z(0) = 0. Find y(0.1) and z(0.1)
dy dz

using Euler's method.

100. Use the RK4 method to find y(0.1) and z(0.1) for the system in the previous
question.