- Covered today: A review of sigma notation for sums and an introduction to finding the area under a
graph via left Riemann sums.
- Due NEVER
- Section 5.1
- 1-23 (as many as you need to do to (re)acquaint yourself with sigma notation and get comfortable with it)
- For each choice of , and , write down a left Riemann sum with terms that approximates the area
of the region bounded by , , , and . Sketch a graph of each region. [ANSWERS]
- , ,
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, ,
- , ,
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, ,
Math 3 Winter 2001
2001-02-19