The quadratic equation 2x² + 3x + 8 = 0 is to be solved numerically starting with an initially value of xo = 2. The new estimate of x after the first iteration using Newton Raphson method is 

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Probability of throwing a number greater than 3 with an ordinary die is

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Probability of getting a total of more than 10 in a single throw with 2 dice

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Probability than a leap year selected at random will have 53 Sundays.

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A card is drawn from an ordinary pack of playing cards and a person bets that it is a spade or an ace. Then the odds against his winning this bet is

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In a horse race the odds in favour of four horses H1, H2, H3, H4 are 1 : 3, 1 : 4, 1 : 5; 1 : 6 respectively not more than one wins at a time. Then the chance that one of them wins is

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In a garden 40% of the flowers are roses and the rest are carnations. If 25% of the roses and 10% of the carnations are red, the probability that a red flower selected at random is a rose.