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Definite Integrals
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Over or Under Estimates

To understand when the midpoint rule gives an underestimate and when it gives an overestimate, we need to draw some pictures.

Let R be the region between the function f (x) = x2 + 5 on the interval [0,4]. Take a midpoint sum using only one...


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