Basic queries Matlab (vectors, indexing, construct matrices in a specific form)

Hello community,

I am beginner in Matlab. I am struggling with the following exrcises. I only managed to answer 1 & 5 however the others confuse me and I don't even know how to start specially with 2 & 3. Please I need your help

My solutions:

%Exercise 1
x = [2:3:89]

%Exercise 5

function density=ExamC()
x=input('Please enter x: ');
m=input('Please enter mean: ');
s=input('Please enter standard deviation: ');
f=1/(s*sqrt(2*pi))*exp(1)^((1/2)*((x-m)/s)^2);
disp('Value of density is: '), disp(f);
end

Thank you for your help,

Abdel

[per isakson]

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[Abderrahmane Elakhiri]

Thank you for your input! I have followed a course already about Matlab. I understand it well however it confuses me the way the question is written! Specially question 2. It would be nice of you if you can simplify in simple words what's exactly required or the logic to answer it.

Thank you

[Stephen23]

"Specially question 2. It would be nice of you if you can simplify in simple words what's exactly required or the logic to answer it."

Question 1 defines a vector named vec.

Question 2 requires you to change the even-indexed elements of vec to 5.

[Abderrahmane Elakhiri]

Thank you very much @Stephen Cobeldick!

It was very easy to do:

%Exercise 2:
vec = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10];
vec(rem(vec,2)==0)=5;

[per isakson]

Or

%Exercise 2:
vec = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10];
vec( 2 : 2 : end ) = 5;

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Exercise 1 and 2

"[...] however it confuses me the way the question is written!" Agree; the very same vector has three different names, x, vec and v. (It might be about level of abstraction; an effort to distiguish between the vector and its representation in Matlab.)

Exercise 3.

The text is ok.

Exercise 4.

There are relevant examples in the documentation on plot()

Exercise 5.

The statement

function density=ExamC()

doesn't follow the instruction. The last sentence says

function  f = density( x, m , s )

(to my best understanding)

[Abderrahmane Elakhiri]

Thank you and apologize for the late reply.

I managed to solve all of them, and you are right for question 5, it's:

function f = density (x, m, s)

I used ExamC instead of density on purpose.

Solutions for all exercises I posted in case someone needs them:

%Exercise 1
x = [2:3:89]
%% 

%Exercise 2
vec = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10];
vec(rem(vec,2)==0)=5; % solution 1
vec(2:2:end)=5 % solution 2
%%

%Exercise 3
A=rand(1,5); B=rand(4,2); C=rand(2,3); D=rand(2,3);
E=[A;[B,[C;D]]];
%%

%Exercise 4
x=linspace(-4,8,200);
y=sin(x);
y2=sin(2*x);
y3=sin(3*x);
plot(x,y,'red',x,y2,'black',x,y3,'green')
ylim([-1.5 1.5]);
%%

%Exercise 5
function f=density()
x=input('Please enter x: ');
m=input('Please enter mean: ');
s=input('Please enter standard deviation: ');
f=1/(s*sqrt(2*pi))*exp(1)^((1/2)*((x-m)/s)^2);
disp('Value of density is: '), disp(f);
end
%%

Note: There are probably better ways to answer some of these questions.

Regards,

Abdel