What is the value of $\sqrt[3]{26}$ corrected up to three decimal places?

What is the value of $\sqrt[3]{26}$ corrected up to three decimal places?
  1. 2.998
  2. 2.844
  3. 2.962
  4. 2.823

Solution

Let $y=f(x)=x^{1 / 3}$ $ \begin{aligned} x+\Delta x & =26 \\ 27+\Delta x & =26 \quad[\because \text { let } x=27] \end{aligned} $ $ \Delta x=-1 $ We have, $\quad y=x^{1 / 3}$ Differentiate w.r.to ' $x$ ' $ \begin{aligned} \frac{d y}{d x} & =\frac{1}{3} x^{\frac{1}{3}-1} \\ d y & =\frac{1}{3} x^{-\frac{2}{3}} d x \\ d y & =\frac{1}{3 \cdot x^{2 / 3}} d x=\frac{1}{3 .(27)^{\frac{2}{3}}}(-1) \\ \Delta y & =\frac{-1}{3(9)}=-\frac{1}{27} \approx-0.037 \\ 3 \sqrt{26} & =y+\Delta y=3+(-0.037)=2.962 \end{aligned} $ Hence, option (3) is correct

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2020 (22 Sep Shift 2)

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