B.E./B.Tech.

DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL/MAY 2010

Fourth Semester
Mechanical Engineering

MA2266 STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL METHODS
(Common to Automobile Engineering and Production Engineering)
(Regulation 2008)
(Statistical Tables may be permitted)

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks

Answer ALL questions
PART A (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

1) Mention the various steps involved in testing of hypothesis.
2) Define Chi-Square test for goodness of fit.
3) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Randomized block design.
4) State the advantages of a factorial experiment over a simple experiment.
5) Using Newton-Raphson method, find the iteration formula to compute N .
6) Explain the power method to determine the eigenvalue of a matrix.
7) Write down the Lagranges interpolating formula.
8) Write down the Simpsons 1/3 rule in numerical integration.
9) Using Eulers method, solve the following differential equation y y ' = subject to
(0) 1 y = .
10) Write down the Milnes predictor-corrector formula for solving initial value problem in
first order differential equation.

PART B (5 x 16 = 80 Marks)

11) (a) (i) A sample of 900 members has a mean 3.4 cm and standard deviation 2.61 cm. Is
the sample from a large population of mean 3.25 cms and standard deviation of
2.61cms? (Test at 5% level of significance. The value of z at 5% level is 1.96 z
o
< ).

(a) (ii) Before an increase in excise duty on tea, 800 persons out of a sample of 1000
persons were found to be tea drinkers. After an increase in duty, 800 people were tea
drinkers in a sample of 1200 people. Using standard error of proportion, state whether
there is a significant decrease in the consumption of tea after the increase in excise
duty. ( z
o
at 5% level 1.645, 1% level 2.33).

(Or)



(b) (i) Out of 8000 graduates in a town 800 are females, out of 1600 graduate employees
120 are females. Use
2
_ to determine if any distinction is made in appointment on the
basic of sex. Value of
2
_ at 5% level for one degree of freedom is 3.84.

(b) (ii) An automobile company gives you the following information about age groups
and the liking for particular model of car which it plans to introduce. On the basic of this
data can it be concluded that the model appeal is independent of the age group.
(
2
0.05
(3) 7.815 _ = )
Persons who: Below 20 20 39 40 59 60 and above
Liked the car: 140 80 40 20
Disliked the car: 60 50 30 80

12) (a) A set of data involving four four tropical feed stuffs A, B, C, D tried on 20 chicks is
given below. All the twenty chicks are treated alike in all respects except the feeding
treatments and each feeding treatment is given to 5 chicks. Analyze the data.
Weight gain of baby chicks fed on different feeding materials composed of tropical feed
stuffs.
Total
A 55 49 42 21 52 219
B 61 112 30 89 63 355
C 42 97 81 95 92 407
D 169 137 169 85 154 714
Grand Total G = 1695


(Or)

(b) An experiment was planned to study the effect of sulphate of potash and super
phosphate on the yield of potatoes. All the combinations of 2 levels of su0per
phosphate and two level of sulphate of potash were studied in an randomized block
design with 4 replications for each.
The yields [per plot] obtained are given in the following table. Analyse the data and give
your exclusions.
Block Yields(
b
l per plot)
I
(1) k p kp
23 25 22 38
II
p (1) k kp
40 26 36 38
III
(1) k kp p
29 20 30 20
IV
kp k p (1)
34 31 24 28

Analyze the data and comment on your finds. ( ( ) ( )
0.05 0.05
3, 9 3.86, 1, 9 5.12 F F = = )



13) (a) (i) Find the inverse of the matrix
1 1 3
1 3 3
2 4 4
A
| |
|
=
|
|

\ .
using Gauss-Jordon method.
(a) (ii) Solve the following system of equation by Gauss elimination method:
2 10; x y z + + = 3 2 3 18; x y z + + = 4 9 16 x y z + + = .

(Or)

(b) (i) Solve 5 10; x y z + = 2 4 12 x y + = and 5 1 x y z + + = using Gauss Seidel
method.
(ii) Determine the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of the
matrix
1 6 1
1 2 0
0 0 3
A
| |
|
=
|
|
\ .
with the initial vector
(0)
[1,1,1]
T
X = .

14) (a) (i) Use Newton divided difference formula to calculate (3), (3) f f ' and (3) f '' from
the following table:
: x 0 1 2 4 5 6
( ) : f x 1 14 15 5 6 19

(ii) From the following table of values of xand y, obtain
dy
dx
and
2
2
d y
dx
for 1.2 x= .
: x 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.2
: y
2.7183 3.3201 4.0552 4.9530 6.0496 7.3891 9.0250

(Or)

(b) (i) A rocket is launched from the ground. Its acceleration is registered during the first
80 seconds and is in the table below. Using trapezoidal rule and Simpsons 1/3 rule,
find the velocity of the rocket at 80 t = sec.

(sec) : t 0 10 20 30 40 50
60 70 80
( / sec) : t cm 30 31.63 33.34 35.47 37.75 40.33
43.25 46.69 40.67

(ii) Evaluate the length of the curve
3
3y x = from ( ) 0, 0 to
1
0,
3
| |
|
\ .
, using Simpsons
1/3 rule using 8 sub-intervals.

15) (a) (i) Using 4
th
order Runge-Kutta method, solve
2 2
2 2
, (0) 1
dy y x
y
dx y x

= =
+
for 0.2 x=
and 0.4 x= with 0.2 h= .



(ii) Given
2
1
dy
y
dx
= + , where 0 x = , find (0.2), (0.4) y y and (0.6) y , using Taylor
series method.

(Or)

(b) (i) Given ( )
2
1
dy
x y
dx
= + and (1) 1, (1.1) 1.233, y y = = (1.2) 1.548, y =
(1.3) 1.974 y = , evaluate (1.4) y by Adam-Bashforth predictor corrector method.

(ii) Using finite difference solve the boundary value problem
3 2 2 3, y y y x '' ' + = + (0) 2, (1) 1 y y = = with 0.2 h= .