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Given information

Newton’s method doesn’t work for finding the root of the equation  if the initial approximation is chosen to be .

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

As per question 

Let,  

Derivate the above equation with respect to , we get: 

 

Consider the formula for Newton's Method:

 

If is taken to be 1, then you get a zero in the denominator on the right hand side.

So,

For newton method to satisfy  

 

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