Consider the experimental data below from a chemical reaction.   xi | 1.435 | 2.235 | 3.035 f(xi) |4.35 |2.97 | 2.2 (a) Construct a divided difference table of the data and approximate f(2.5) using the Newton’s second degree (10) interpolating polynomial. Explain the comparison of this and the answer in (a) above.

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Consider the experimental data below from a chemical reaction.

 

xi | 1.435 | 2.235 | 3.035

f(xi) |4.35 |2.97 | 2.2

(a) Construct a divided difference table of the data and approximate f(2.5) using the Newton’s second degree (10) interpolating polynomial. Explain the comparison of this and the answer in (a) above.

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