Cora is using successive approximations to estimate a positive solution to f(x)=g(x), where f(x)=x2 +13 and g(x)=3x+14. the table shows her results for different input values of x.
x
f (x)
g (x)
0
13
14
1
14
17
2
17
20
3
22
23
4
29
26
3.5
25.25
24.5
use cora’s process to find the positive solution, to the nearest tenth, of f(x)=g(x).

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