“Integration sounds like interrogation and that scares me”
I recently received a message from a friend and the heading of the post perfectly describes what was said to me. Thereafter, an interesting integration question was sent to me. It read as follows:
I must admit, it does look quiet scary. My immediate thought was that some sort of substitution was required but I really had no idea as to where and how this should be done. Two pages and a headache later, I thought to myself why don’t I get a rough idea of what the answer should look like. Once again, let’s start approximating things (as it turns out, my approximation gets me the absolutely correct answer).
I looked at the integration bounds and noted that the point x = 3 was in fact the midpoint. I then decided to construct a Taylor polynomial for the above function around the point x = 3. It was done as follows:
You might be wondering why I didn’t bother taking anymore derivatives.…