Converting polar to cartesian coordinates

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Homework Statement



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Do you see that 2 between A and the integral? There's no 2 in the above equation. I don't see where that 2 came from. Everything else is fine.
 
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The 2 comes from the symmetry. 0 to pi/4 on the sine circle is only calculating the bottom-right half of the area.
 
because if you just did it with no 2*the integral then you would only get the area of half of your region
 

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