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Chapter 14 practice bank

100 questions:
Numerical Methods

Solve on paper first. Reveal only the final answer when you want to check yourself. There are no worked solutions in this bank by design.

34 easy 33 medium 33 advanced

EasyRoundingnumerical-methods-001

Round 1.006 to two decimal places.

EasyAbsolute errornumerical-methods-002

If the true value is 11 and the approximation is 10.7, find absolute error.

EasyRelative errornumerical-methods-003

The true value is 7 and absolute error is 1. What is relative error?

EasyCentred differencesnumerical-methods-004

Use [f(x+h)−f(x−h)]/(2h) with h=0.1 to estimate f′(4) for f(x)=x².

EasyForward differencesnumerical-methods-005

Use [f(x+h)−f(x)]/h with h=0.1 to estimate f′(5) for f(x)=x².

EasyTrapezoidal rulenumerical-methods-006

Use one trapezoid to integrate f(x)=x from 0 to 7.

EasySimpson's rulenumerical-methods-007

Use Simpson's rule with two subintervals to integrate 2x² from 0 to 2.

EasyBisectionnumerical-methods-008

An interval has width 32. What is its width after 5 bisections?

EasyNewton's methodnumerical-methods-009

For x²−2=0, take one Newton step from x₀=1.

EasyResidualsnumerical-methods-010

For the scalar equation 5x=24, compute residual r=b−Ax at x=5.