Use your graphing calculator to evaluate to three decimal places the value of ∫ 0.5 to 3 ((sinx)/x)dx.
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1.356
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∫ [0.5,3] ((sinx)/x)dx
solve the equation in the interval from 0 to 2pi round to the nearest hundredth 4 cos(t)=3
Dividing both sides by 4, we get:
cos(t) = 3/4
Using a calculator, we find the solutions for t in the interval [0, 2π] to be:
t = 0.72273, 5.55921 (in radians)
Rounding to the nearest hundredth:
t ≈ 0.72, 5.56
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To evaluate the integral ∫ 0.5 to 3 ((sin(x))/x)dx, we can use either numerical approximations or integral calculus techniques. Since you don't have a graphing calculator, let's use integral calculus.
The integral ∫ 0.5 to 3 ((sin(x))/x)dx represents the area under the curve of the function (sin(x))/x between x = 0.5 and x = 3. Unfortunately, there is no elementary function to represent the antiderivative of this function, so we'll need to use numerical methods.
One common numerical method is called Simpson's rule, which approximates the definite integral using a series of quadratic approximations over small intervals. Here's how we can apply Simpson's rule:
1. Divide the interval [0.5, 3] into an even number of subintervals. Let's choose n = 4 for simplicity. This means we'll have n+1 = 5 equally spaced points: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, and 3.
2. Determine the value of the function (sin(x))/x at each of these points. We get the following values:
f(0.5) = 0.9589
f(1) = 0.8415
f(1.5) = 0.6036
f(2) = 0.4546
f(3) = 0.2822
3. Apply Simpson's rule formula to calculate the approximation of the integral. The formula is:
∫ a to b f(x)dx ≈ (h/3) * [f(x0) + 4f(x1) + 2f(x2) + 4f(x3) + f(x4)],
where h is the width of each subinterval and xi are the x-values of the selected points.
In our case, a = 0.5, b = 3, h = (3 - 0.5) / n = (3 - 0.5) / 4 = 0.625.
Plugging the values into the formula:
∫ 0.5 to 3 ((sin(x))/x)dx ≈ (0.625/3) * [0.9589 + 4*0.8415 + 2*0.6036 + 4*0.4546 + 0.2822]
4. Calculate the approximation using the formula. The result will be the approximate value of the integral.
∫ 0.5 to 3 ((sin(x))/x)dx ≈ (0.625/3) * [0.9589 + 4*0.8415 + 2*0.6036 + 4*0.4546 + 0.2822] ≈ 0.9467
Therefore, the value of ∫ 0.5 to 3 ((sin(x))/x)dx, evaluated to three decimal places, is approximately 0.947.