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posted by  Tilly on 11/23/2008 10:08:24 AM  |  status: Live  

*** AREAS AND LIMITS ***

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Can someone explain how to do this problem?
 Determine a region whose area is equal to the given
limit. Do not evaluate the limit.
 
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posted by Bart_Boy on 11/23/2008 10:21:14 AM  |  status: Live
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the part means that you're splitting up a region that is units wide into n parts.  That's the width of each rectangle.

The part is the function that's varying that gives the height of the rectangle.  It starts at tan (0) and goes to tan (π/9).

This means that the region could be the area between the graph of and the x-axis as x goes from to .
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