Question

PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

Use the given recursion and starting value of $x_0 = 2.4$ to find $x_1$ :

$x_1 = \dfrac{x_0 + \frac6{x_0}}2 = \dfrac{2.4 + \frac{6}{2.4}}2 = 2.45$

Do the same for $x_2$ and $x_3$ :

$x_2 = \dfrac{x_1 + \frac6{x_1}}2 = \dfrac{2.45 + \frac6{2.45}}2 \approx 2.44949$

$x_3 = \dfrac{x_2+\frac6{x_2}}2 \approx \dfrac{2.44949 + \frac6{2.44949}}2 \approx \boxed{2.44949}$

(That's not a mistake. This just tells you that the 2nd and 3rd iterates are very close together and have at least the same first 5 digits after the decimal.)