Determining Volume using double integral

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Homework Statement



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

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How would I set this up?
 
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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.
 
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.

[tex]\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[/tex]

How off am I?
 
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Not too good I don't think. I'm not too sure what you are trying to draw, but your first step should be to figure out where the two planes intersect. Can you do that? I think that will help you picture the region.