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12-67.
A function
Use a trapezoidal sum with four subintervals to approximate
. Use your approximation from part (a) to estimate the value of
. Justify your estimate with your work. Use Euler’s Method, starting with
, with four steps of equal size, to approximate . Show your work. At
, the slope is . Since the step size is , then Starting at
, the next point is: If
and , write a third-degree Taylor polynomial about and use it to approximate . How close were your estimates of
in parts (b) through (d)? Explain why this happened.