getting-started-with-arrays/questions.rst
author Puneeth Chaganti <punchagan@fossee.in>
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Objective Questions
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.. A mininum of 8 questions here (along with answers)
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1. An array in Python is the same as a Python list
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   a. True
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   #. False
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Answer: False
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2. ``x = array([1, 2, 3], [5, 6, 7])`` is a valid statement
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   a. True
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   #. False
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Answer: False
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3. What will be the output of the following code,
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      x = array([[1, 2, 3], ['a', 2, 'c']])
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      print x[0][0] + x[0][1] + x[0][2] 
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   a. 6
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   #. 123
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   #. a2c
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   #. Error as array takes only homogeneous elements
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Answer: 123
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4. What will be the output of the following code,
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	x = [[1, 2, 3], [4.1, 4.2, 4.3], ['6','7',8]]
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	y = array(x)
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	print y[-1][-2] + y[-1][-1] + y[-2][0] + y[0][-2]
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   a. 21.1
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   #. 12.5
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   #. 784.12
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   #. Error as array takes only homogeneous elements
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   .. 4.2 4.3 2 2
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Answer: 784.12
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5. What is the output of the following code,
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      x = array([[1, 2, 3], ['a', 2, 'c']])
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      identity(x.shape)
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   a. Will create an identity matrix of shape (2, 3).
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   #. ``identity()`` function takes an integer as argument and a tuple
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      is passed.
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   #. Will return, array([[1,0,1],[0,1,0]])
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   #. Will return, array([[0,1,0],[0,1,0]])
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Answer: ``identity()`` function takes an integer as argument and a
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      	tuple is passed.
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6. ``ones_like()`` function?
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   (A) Returns an array of ones with the same shape and type as a
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       given array.
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   (B) Return a new array of given shape and type, filled with ones.
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   Read the statements and answer,
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   a. Only statement A is correct.
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   #. Only statement B is correct.
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   #. Both statement A and B are correct.
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   #. Both statement A and B are incorrect.
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Answer: Only statement A is correct.
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7. ``zeros_like()`` function?
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   (A) Return a new array of given shape and type, filled with zeros.
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   (B) Returns an array of zeros with the same shape and type as a
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       given array.
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   Read the statements and answer,
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   a. Only statement A is correct.
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   #. Only statement B is correct.
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   #. Both statement A and B are correct.
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   #. Both statement A and B are incorrect.
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Answer: Only statement B is correct.
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8. What will be output of the following code snippet.
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      x = linspace(1,10,10).reshape(5,2)
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      print (x[-3]+x[-4]).sum()
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   #. 18.0
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   #. 14.0
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   #. 16.44
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   #. Error
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Answer: 18
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Larger Questions
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.. A minimum of 2 questions here (along with answers)
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1. Write a python script to create a 15x15 array of equally spaced 225
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   elements from 1 to 1000, add 5 to each of the diagonal elements and
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   find the sum of all odd rows of the array. Say for example the
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   array,
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       x = array([[1, 2, 3],
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		  [4, 5, 6],
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		  [7, 8, 9]])
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   will give answer 40 ((1+5) + 2 + 3 + 7 + 8 + (9+5)).
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2. For any given array([a1, a2, a3, .. , an]) the Vandermonde matrix
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    will be [[1, a1, a1**2, .. , a1**(n-1)], [1, a2, a2**2, .. ,
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    a2**(n-1)], .. , [1, an, an**2, .. ,an**(n-1)]]. Write a python
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    script to generate the Vandermonde matrix and find the determinant
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    of the matrix for [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
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    16, 17, 18, 19, 20].  [Hint: to find the determinant use the
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    function ``det()`` from ``linalg`` module.]