Suppose the tangent line to the curve  y= f(x) at the point (2,5)has the equation y= 9-2x. If Newton’s method isused to locate a root of the equation f(x)  =0 and the initialapproximation is x1=2 , find the second approximation x2  .

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Suppose the tangent line to the curve  y= f(x) at the point (2,5)
has the equation y= 9-2x. If Newton’s method is
used to locate a root of the equation f(x)  =0 and the initial
approximation is x1=2 , find the second approximation x2  .

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