Worked solution
Use horizontal strips or a trapezium
Without using a calculator, find the area of the region enclosed by and .
CJC · Lecture · Example 13
Find both intersections
Substitute the line into the parabola: , so , and . Thus or .
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Use horizontal widths
The line is and the parabola is . For , the line is to the right. Therefore .
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Evaluate exactly
square units.
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Alternative trapezium method
The line, y-axis and enclose a trapezium whose parallel horizontal sides have lengths and separation . The source alternative setup is . Independently evaluating the two terms gives square units.
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Common mistakes
Use y limits −2 and 4 for horizontal strips. Right minus left is the line minus the parabola, even though their original equations are written in different forms.