Determining Volume using double integral

Homework Statement

Find the volume of the solid in the first octant by the planes z = x + y + 1 and z = 5 - x - y

The Attempt at a Solution

How would I set this up?

Dick
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You would set it up by drawing the region in the z=0 (i.e. xy plane) and integrating z*dx*dy over that region.

Are you sure it's not supposed to be dz dy dx? I went to my prof with this one, and the way he set it up as a series of triple integrals.

Dick
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Your post title was "Determining Volume using double integral". It you want to set it up as a triple integral first then you integrate 1*dz*dx*dy over the volume. The integral of 1*dz is just z. It's the same thing. Now get started.

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Its not to scale though; I just need to worry about the top right quadrant.

$$\int^{5}_{0}\int^{x - 5}_{0}\int^{5- x - y}_{0} dz dy dx + \int^{1}_{0}\int^{-x - 1}_{0}\int^{x + y +1}_{0} dz dy dx$$

How off am I?

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