Question

Use bisection method to find out the positive square root of 30 correct to 4 decimal places

Answer 1

Answer:

Since we need the answer correct to two places of decimal, we shall first find the square root up to three places of decimal. For this purpose we must add 6 ( that is three pairs of ) zeros to the right of the decimal point.

∴

3

=1.732 up to three places of decimal.

3

=1.73 correct to two places of decimal.