Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH101/April 2014/Question 02
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Question 02 |
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Long Problem. Show your work. No credit will be given for the answer without the correct accompanying work. Find the area of the finite region bounded between the two curves and . It will be useful to sketch the region first. |
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Hint 1 |
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Where do the functions intersect? How does that help define the regions? |
Hint 2 |
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How does the area for positive values compare to the area for negative values. |
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Solution 1 |
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The given region is the following:
Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. According to the picture above, the region has symmetry with respect to the -axis (i.e. it is the same on the left and right). Thus, it’s enough to compute the area when or and then double it. We will solve for . We have to find the boundary of the region which is where the curves intersect. Since we will find the area when , it’s enough to find the intersection point of two graphs on the first quadrant: and .
This may look difficult to solve by hand and in general it is. However, we have a few special values of cosine that we know and one of them is so it seems reasonable to check if works. Substituting , , so the equality holds and our guess works. Thus, the two graphs on the first quadrant intersects at and the region of interest is on . Compute the area. Denote the area of the region when by . Then since the trig function takes on larger values over the region, we have
Since the area of the whole region in the problem is the double of (by the reasons discussed above), the answer is . |
Solution 2 |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. This solution doesn’t use the symmetry of the region. Find the intersection points. Since we have
by inspection, at , , so the first equality holds. Also, at , , so the second equality holds. Thus, the two graph intersect at .
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