How to Compute the Volume of a Solid of Revolution Between y=x^4 and y=125x?

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Homework Statement



Compute the volume of the solid formed in the first quadrant by y=x^4 and y=125x
when rotated around the x axis.


Homework Equations



the integral for a disk is solved by taking the integral from a to b of pi R^2

The Attempt at a Solution



I found the integral's limits to be from 0 to 5. My problem is figuring out what to actually integrate. I have tried integrating both (x^4 - 125x)^2 and (125x - x^4)^2 with both yielding the same wrong answer. I then tried doing the integral for (125x)^2 from 0 to 5 and found that to be wrong also.
 
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I do not think this can be solved by "disks"...try washer method

Casey
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...
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