Question

Approximate the area under the curve y = x² from x = 2 to x = 5 using a Right Endpoint approximation with 6 subdivisions.

Answer 1

Answer:

$\text{Area}\,=36.75$

Step-by-step explanation:

Using right estimation point simply means to form a bunch of rectangles between the two limits, x =2 and x = 5. and add the areas of all those rectangles.

There must be 6 subdivisions between 2 and 5. so, to do that:

$\Delta{x}=\dfrac{5-2}{6}=0.5$

the length of each subdivision is 0.5 units. That also means that the 6 rectangles in between the limits will each have the base length of 0.5 units.

So the endpoints of each subdivision from 3 to 5 will be:

$\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}3&3.5&4&4.5&5\\\end{tabular}$

By right endpoint approx, we mean that the height of the rectangles will be determined by the right endpoint of each subdivision, that is, it must be equal to the function value of the first limit.

$\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}subdivision& x &height( y=x^2 )&3 to 3.5&3.5&12.25&3.5 to 4&4&16&4 to 4.5&4.5&20.25&4.5 to 5&5&25\end$

Note that we have used the right-end-point of the subdivision to determine the height the rectangles.

All that's left to do now is to simply calculate the areas of the each of the rectangles. And add them up.

the base of each of the rectangle is $\Delta{x}=0.5$

and the height is determined in the table above.

$\text{Area}\,=(0.5\times12.25)+(0.5\times16)+(0.5\times20.25)+(0.5\times25)$

$\text{Area}\,=0.5(12.25+16+20.25+25)$

$\text{Area}\,=36.75$