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Cell joiner
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De-dupe
Remove all the redundant elements in a vector, but keep the first occurrence of each value in its original location. So if a =...

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Quote Doubler
Given a string s1, find all occurrences of the single quote character and replace them with two occurrences of the single quote ...

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Estimating Monthly Electricity Cost for a Household Appliance
You recently bought an electric kettle for your kitchen, and you want to estimate how much it costs to run every month. The kett...

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Longest run of consecutive numbers
Given a vector a, find the number(s) that is/are repeated consecutively most often. For example, if you have a = [1 2 2 2 1 ...

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Rescale Scores
Each column (except last) of matrix X contains students' scores in a course assignment or a test. The last column has a weighted...

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Find MPG of Lightest Cars
The file cars.mat contains a table named cars with variables Model, MPG, Horsepower, Weight, and Acceleration for several classi...

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Pi Estimate 1
Estimate Pi as described in the following link: <http://www.people.virginia.edu/~teh1m/cody/Pi_estimation1.pdf>

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subtract central cross
Given an n-by-n square matrix, where n is an odd number, return the matrix without the central row and the central column.

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frame of the matrix
Given the matrix M, return M without the external frame.

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Given a matrix, swap the 2nd & 3rd columns
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Voltage in a lamp
A lamp is measured to have a resistance of R ohms when it operates at a power of P Watts. What is the voltage (in volts) being a...

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Stress-Strain Properties - 5
Similar to the previous problem, materials may be characterized by their stiffness-to-weight ratio, which is the elastic modulus...

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Stress-Strain Properties - 4
A common measure of the ability of a material to carry load per unit mass is termed strength-to-weight ratio and is calculated b...

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Stress-Strain Properties - 3
A brittle material will not exhibit a yield point. In other words, the yield point and failure point coincide. In such cases, th...

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Stress-Strain Properties - 2
The resilience of a material is its ability to resist permanent (or plastic) deformation. The resilience coincides with the elas...

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Stress-Strain Properties - 1
This is the first in a series of problems regarding mechanics of materials, in particular, material properties drawn from stress...

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Matrix Construction I
Given n, construct a matrix as shown in the example below. Example For n=8, the output should look like this: 1 2 3 4 ...

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Height of a right-angled triangle
Given numbers a, b and c, find the height of the right angled triangle with sides a and b and hypotenuse c, for the base c. If a...

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Find my daddy long leg (No 's')
Given the ratio of the two legs (longer / shorter), and the hypotenuse length, find the value of the bigger leg.

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Calculate the area of a triangle between three points
Calculate the area of a triangle between three points: P1(X1,Y1) P2(X2,Y2) P3(X3,Y3) these three points are the vertices of ...

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Make roundn function
Make roundn function using round. x=0.55555 y=function(x,1) y=1 y=function(x,2) y=0.6 y=function(x,3) ...

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Rounding off numbers to n decimals
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Matlab Basics - Rounding III
Write a script to round a large number to the nearest 10,000 e.g. x = 12,358,466,243 --> y = 12,358,470,000

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Matlab Basics - Rounding II
Write a script to round a variable x to 3 decimal places: e.g. x = 2.3456 --> y = 2.346

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MATLAB Basic: rounding IV
Do rounding towards plus infinity. Example: -8.8, answer -8 +8.1 answer 9 +8.50 answer 9

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MATLAB Basic: rounding III
Do rounding towards minus infinity. Example: -8.8, answer -9 +8.1 answer 8 +8.50 answer 8

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MATLAB Basic: rounding
Do rounding near to zero Example: -8.8, answer -8 +8.1 answer 8

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MATLAB Basic: rounding II
Do rounding nearest integer. Example: -8.8, answer -9 +8.1 answer 8 +8.50 answer 9

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