MHB Find the area of the indicated region

[shamieh]

Find the area of the indicated region.

View attachment 1684so right minus left so I know the first thing I need to do isfind the integrals

so

$$\frac{x^2}{8} + 1 = x - \frac{1}{2}$$

So I took a stab at this and got this..

$$\frac{x^2}{8} - \frac{8x}{8} + \frac{12}{8}$$

$$x^2 - 8x + 12 = (x - 6) (x - 2) = x = 6 x = 2$$

so
$$
\int^6_2 \frac{x^2}{8} + 1 - x - \frac{1}{2} dx$$

and I got $$\frac{128}{24}$$ .. can someone check my work please? I'm skeptical of my process to get there.

 

[Prove It]

Find the area of the indicated region.

View attachment 1684so right minus left so I know the first thing I need to do isfind the integrals

so

$$\frac{x^2}{8} + 1 = x - \frac{1}{2}$$

So I took a stab at this and got this..

$$\frac{x^2}{8} - \frac{8x}{8} + \frac{12}{8}$$

$$x^2 - 8x + 12 = (x - 6) (x - 2) = x = 6 x = 2$$

so
$$
\int^6_2 \frac{x^2}{8} + 1 - x - \frac{1}{2} dx$$

and I got $$\frac{128}{24}$$ .. can someone check my work please? I'm skeptical of my process to get there.

From your sketch there is no way the top function is \displaystyle \begin{align*} y = x - \frac{1}{2} \end{align*} and you are definitely not integrating over the region \displaystyle \begin{align*} 2 \leq x \leq 6 \end{align*}. What's the point in even having a sketch if you don't look at it?

 

[shamieh]

From your sketch there is no way the top function is \displaystyle \begin{align*} y = x - \frac{1}{2} \end{align*} and you are definitely not integrating over the region \displaystyle \begin{align*} 2 \leq x \leq 6 \end{align*}. What's the point in even having a sketch if you don't look at it?

Nope. The top function should be x + 1. Seems my teacher made a mistake. Attempting the problem again.

 

[shamieh]

re did the problem and ended up getting
$$
\int^8_0 \frac{x^2}{8} + 1 - x + 1 = \int^8_0 \frac{x^2}{8} + 2 - x$$

which is

$$\frac{1}{24}x^3 + 2x - \frac{1}{2}x^2$$ | 8,0 = 28

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is this correct?

 

[MarkFL]

No, for your integrand, you want the "top" function minus the "bottom" function:

$$A=\int_0^8 (x+1)-\left(\frac{x^2}{8}+1 \right)\,dx$$

 

[topsquark]

$$x^2 - 8x + 12 = (x - 6) (x - 2) = x = 6 x = 2$$

Pet peeve time. You do realize this line makes absolutely no sense? Note that graders will mark lines like this incorrect simply for being unintelligible...it's a bad habit to write things this way.

-Dan