Use the Babylonian method to estimate β80 to the nearest hundredth.
Accepted Solution
A:
The answer is 8.94.
Most people guess that a square root is half, so we will make that our first guess; 80/2 = 40, so 40 is our guess. 80/40 = 2 Average 40 & 2:Β (40+2)/2 = 21; this is our new guess.
80/21 = 3.80952381 Average 21 & 3.80952381: 12.40476191 is our new guess
80/12.40476191 = 6.449136274 Average 12.40476191 & 6.449136274:Β 9.426949092 is our new guess
80/9.426949092 = 8.48630869 Average 9.426949092 & 8.48630869 = 8.956628891 is our new guess
80/8.956628891 = 8.931931977 Average 8.956628891 & 8.931931977:Β 8.944280434 is our new guess
80/8.944280434 = 8.944280434 Average 8.944280434 & 8.944280434 = 8.944263386
By this point, we have the same number to the hundredths place, so we stop.Β Our estimate is 8.94.