Reg. No.

Question Paper Code : 70770

B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021.

Fourth/Fifth Semester

Mechanical Engineering

MA 6452 — STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL METHODS

(Common to : Mechanical Engineering (Sandwich)/Automobile

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

Answer ALL questions.

PART A — (10 × 2 = 20 marks)

a b
1. What are the expected frequencies of 2 × 2 contingency table ?
c d

2. Write down the formula of test statistic t to test the significance of difference
between the means of large samples.

3. What are the uses of ANOVA?

4. What are the basic principles in the design of experiment?

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5. Find the iterative formula by Newton’s method for , where N is a positive
N
integer.

6. What kind of an eigenvalue and eigenvector of a matrix would be obtained by

dy d2 y
7. Specify the Newton’s backward difference formulae for and .
dx dx 2

8. Write down the errors in Trapezoidal and Simpson’s rules of numerical

9. If y′ = − y , y (0) = 1 then find y (.1) by Euler method.

10. What are single step and multistep methods? Give an example.
 PART B — (5 × 16 = 80 marks)

11. (a) (i) The mean height of two samples of 1000 and 2000 members are
respectively 67.5 and 68.0 inches. Can they be regarded as drawn
from the same population with standard deviation 2.5 inches at 5%
level of significance? (8)

(ii) A random sample of 10 boys has the following IQ’s 70, 83, 88, 95,
98, 100, 101, 107, 110 and 120. Do these data support the
assumption of a population mean IQ of 100 at 5% level of
significance? (8)

Or

(b) (i) Pumpkins were grown under two experimental conditions. Two
random samples of 11 and 9 pumpkins show the sample standard
deviations of their weights as 0.8 and 0.5 respectively. Assuming
that the weight distributions are normal, test the hypothesis that
the true variances are equal, against the alternative hypothesis
that they are not at the 10% level of significance. (8)

(ii) Using the data given in the following table to test at the 0.01 level
of significance whether a person’s ability in Mathematics is
independent of his/her interest in Statistics. (8)
Ability in Mathematics
Low Average High
Low 63 42 15
Interest in Average 58 61 31
Statistics High 14 47 29

12. (a) The following table shows the lives in hours of four brands of electric
lamps brand. (16)
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

Perform an analysis of variance and test the homogeneity of the mean

Or

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 (b) Analyze the variance in the following Latin square of yields of paddy
where A, B, C, D denote the different methods of cultivation.
D122 A121 C123 B122

B124 C123 A122 D125

A120 B119 D120 C121

C122 D123 B121 A122

Examine whether the different methods of cultivation have given

13. (a) (i) Find the +ve root of x 4 − x − 9 = 0 using Newton method. (8)
(ii) Find the largest Eigenvalue and its corresponding Eigenvector
using power method, for

1 − 3 2 
 
A =  4 4 − 1 . (8)
6 3 5 

Or

(b) (i) Solve by Gauss Seidel : (8)

2 1 1
 
(ii) Find the inverse of A =  3 2 3  by Gauss Jordan method. (8)
1 4 9 
 

14. (a) (i) Interpolate y (12) , if

x: 10 15 20 25 30 35

y (x) 35 33 29 27 22 14

1
dx
(ii) Evaluate 1 + x
0
2
by Simpson’s (1 / 3) rule, dividing the range into

four equal parts.

Or

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 (b) (i) Find y′ (1) , if

x: –1 0 2 3

y (x ) –8 3 1 12

2 2
dx − dy
(ii) Using Trapezoidal rule, evaluate 
1 1
x+y
with h = k = 0.5 .

dy
15. (a) (i) By fourth order Runge-Kutta method, find y(0.2) from = y−x,
dx
y(0) = 2 taking h = 0.1 . (8)

d2 y
(ii) Solve the differential equation − y = x with y(0) = 0 , y(1) = 0
dx 2
1
and h = by finite difference method. (8)
4

Or

dy
(b) Using Taylor’s series method, = xy + y2 , y(0) = 1 at
solve
dx
x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 . Continue the solution at x = 0.4 by Milne’s Predictor-
Corrector method. (16)

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