Area of Region

[KEYWEST17]

Sketch the region enclosed by the given curves. Decide whether to integrate with respect to x or y. Then find the area of the region.

Y=1/x
Y=1/x^2
X=3

I graphed the equation on my graphing calculator and got 1.765278955

This is wrong though. Any ideas on how to do this?

 

[tkhunny]

Well, you're going to have to do better than that. How did you define the curves? Did you do it correctly? Did you decide on dx or dy? What integral did you use? What were the limits?

I get ln(3) - 2/3 = 0.432ish

 

[KEYWEST17]

I wound up getting the same answer after reevaluating it. Thanks for working it out though!