The average temperature in the box

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Im not really sure were I am going wrong in the problem there was a similar one in the textbook examples with a different temperature function and they just divided by 4. I really don' t know how my integration is wrong either please help the function if you can't read it is. T(x,y,z)= 128e^{-x-y-z}

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Your integration is fine, but you seem not to have understood why the other case divided by 4 at the end. The average value of some quantity f(x,y,z) over a region V is ∫f.dv/∫dv, right?
 
To be honest, I did not know. The region in the example was also a box.
 
whynot314 said:
To be honest, I did not know. The region in the example was also a box.

The volume of the box in this case is log(2)*log(4)*log(8), yes? Not 4.
 
yes, thank you.
 
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