Find Area Below Graph with Calculus: A Lab Tutorial

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Okay, so my question is: given the picture below, how can I find the area below the graph (in the shaded region) ? It's for a lab that I did in class, but it wasn't until i finished the whole picture that i realized that I didn't know how to calculate the area of this graph.

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This is the THIRD time you posted that problem - it's starting to look like SPAM!
 
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