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How do you calculate an error using left and right approx? How do you find the exact answer to that integral?
Here's the homework question.
How many subdivisions would you need to use so that the error in the left and right approximations of the function f(x)=x^3 from x=0 to 10 was 0. 01?
So, I know how to calculate the area of right and left but how do I find the real answers first?
And how do i make the error equal to 0.01?
Thanks. Calculus is hard so please help.
f(x)=x^3 from x=0 to 10
here is the calculation of my left and right approximation using 10 subdivisions.
L10= f(0)+f(1)+f(2)+f(3)+f(4)+f(5)+f(6)+f(7)+f(8)+f(9)
= 0+ .25+ 4+20.25+ 64+156.25+324+600.25+1042+1640.3
=3851.3
R10= f(1)+f(2)+f(3)+f(4)+f(5)+f(6)+f(7)+f(8)+f(9)+f(10)
.25+ 4+20.25+ 64+156.25+324+600.25+1042+1640.3+ 2500
=6351.3
if you get the average of the two you have 3400.87
so, Now what?
Homework Statement
How do you calculate an error using left and right approx? How do you find the exact answer to that integral?
Here's the homework question.
How many subdivisions would you need to use so that the error in the left and right approximations of the function f(x)=x^3 from x=0 to 10 was 0. 01?
So, I know how to calculate the area of right and left but how do I find the real answers first?
And how do i make the error equal to 0.01?
Thanks. Calculus is hard so please help.
Homework Equations
f(x)=x^3 from x=0 to 10
The Attempt at a Solution
here is the calculation of my left and right approximation using 10 subdivisions.
L10= f(0)+f(1)+f(2)+f(3)+f(4)+f(5)+f(6)+f(7)+f(8)+f(9)
= 0+ .25+ 4+20.25+ 64+156.25+324+600.25+1042+1640.3
=3851.3
R10= f(1)+f(2)+f(3)+f(4)+f(5)+f(6)+f(7)+f(8)+f(9)+f(10)
.25+ 4+20.25+ 64+156.25+324+600.25+1042+1640.3+ 2500
=6351.3
if you get the average of the two you have 3400.87
so, Now what?
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