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The area (A) under a curve is equal to the sum of the areas of n rectangles, taking the limit as n approaches infinity. Which is the correct mathematical representation of the area?What's the answer? A,BC, or D?

The area (A) under a curve is equal to the sum of the areas of n rectangles, taking-example-1
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Answer:

The answer is A in the picture above

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The area of each k-th rectangle is


\begin{gathered} f(x_k)\cdot\Delta x_{} \\ \\ \text{where }f(x_k)\text{ is the height of rectangle k, and }\Delta x\text{ is the side of each rectangle} \end{gathered}

Thus, after summing the areas of the n rectangles, we obtain:


\sum ^n_(k=1)(f(x_k)\cdot\Delta x_{})

Then, to find the area under the curve we need to take the limit as n approaches infinity. So, we obtain:


\lim _(n\to\infty)\sum ^n_(k=1)(f(x_k)\cdot\Delta x_{})

Therefore, option A is correct.

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