I have asked my teacher multiple times to explain this and I still have no idea how to solve. Help please!
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Thank you!
Do you know what a Riemann sum is? Suppose we have a function f(x) defined on an interval [0,a] and you divide the interval [0,a] into n pieces for our \(\displaystyle \Delta x\). That is
\(\displaystyle \Delta x = \frac{a}{n}\)
so that the ith interval starts at i * \(\displaystyle \Delta x\). That is
\(\displaystyle x_i = i\, *\, \Delta x = \frac{i\, a}{n}\)
The (partial) Riemann sum, R
n, which approximates the integral of f(x) from 0 to a, can now be written as
\(\displaystyle R_n\, =\, \underset{i=1}{\overset{n}{\Sigma}} f(x_i)\, \Delta x\, =\, \underset{i=1}{\overset{n}{\Sigma}} f(x_i)\, \frac{a}{n}\)
Choose the function f(x) and some value for a so that that Riemann sum looks like what you need.