Homework Help: calculus

Posted by ryan on Monday, March 5, 2012 at 9:22pm.

consider the integral [cos(x^3)dx,0,0.5]. Approximating it by the Midpoint Rule with n equal subintervals, give an estimate for n which guarantees that the error is bounded by 1/10^4

calculus - Steve, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 10:56am
I get n=8
with integral value = 0.4995

wolframalpha says its actually 0.499442

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