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Bisection and False Position Methods

The document contains practice problems for the bisection and false position methods in numerical analysis. It provides specific functions and initial guesses to find roots, along with answers for each problem. The results include approximations for positive and negative roots, relative errors, and the number of iterations required.

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Bisection and False Position Methods

The document contains practice problems for the bisection and false position methods in numerical analysis. It provides specific functions and initial guesses to find roots, along with answers for each problem. The results include approximations for positive and negative roots, relative errors, and the number of iterations required.

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CE17 E3B/E3LB

Module 2 Practice Problems

Bracketing: Bisection Method

1. Find the 4th approximation of the positive root of the function f(x) = x4 − 7 using the
bisection method with the initial guess of 1 and 2.
Answer: x = 1.6875

2. Approximate the negative root between -3 and -2 of the function f(x) = x2 − 7 to within 0.1
of its actual value.
Answer: x = -2.6875

3. For f(x) = [3x2 tan(x)]/(1-x2), what approximate value of x between 21 and 23 gives a
relative error of less than 1%?
Answer: x = 21.875

Bracketing: False Position Method

1. Determine the root of f(x) = ex – 3x2 between 0.5 and 1 using the False Position Method
with 3 iterations. Find the relative error at this step.
Answer: x = 0.90993, relative error = 0.00155

2. Find a real root of the equation f(x) = x4 – 11x + 8 until relative error is less than 0.01.
How many iterations did it take?
Answer: x = 1.89049, n = 4

3. Determine the positive real root of y = (x-4)2(x+2) using 4 iterations with initial guesses of
-2.5 and 1.
Answer: x = 1.99936

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