How do you use the trapezoidal rule and five sub-intervals find approximation for this integral x=1 and x=3 for #1/x^2 dx#?
1 Answer
May 1, 2015
Approximate
For this problems
The approximation is:
Plug in the values and do the arithmetic:
Get a common denominator and simplify.
(Yes, it really was this tedious before electronic calculators.)