Given that int_0^3f(x)dx=630f(x)dx=6 and int_0^2f(x)dx=520f(x)dx=5. Show that int_2^3f(x)dx32f(x)dx. How to do this?

1 Answer
Feb 3, 2018

int_2^3 f(x)\ dx=1

Explanation:

If we consider an integral as the area under a curve, we can say that the area under the curve on the interval [2,3] can be expressed as the area under the curve on the interval [0,3] minus the area under the curve on the interval [0,2].

You can think of it as taking the area under [0,3] and then removing the area [0,2], which would leave you with the area under [2,3].

This knowledge lets us put up the following equation of the integrals:
int_2^3 f(x)\ dx=int_0^3 f(x)\ dx-int_0^2 f(x)\ dx

Since we know the values for the integrals on the right hand side, we get:
int_2^3 f(x)\ dx=6-5

This means that the integral is equal to:
int_2^3 f(x)\ dx=1