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13-62.

Suppose you want to approximate the area under the curve of a function over the interval using sub-intervals.

  1. What is the width of each rectangle?

  2. What will be the height of the first rectangle be if left endpoint rectangles are used?

    height of rectangle

  3. What will be the height of the first rectangle be if right endpoint rectangles are used?

  4. What will be the height of the last rectangle be if left endpoint rectangles are used?

    Left endpoints go from to .

  5. What will be the height of the last rectangle be if right endpoint rectangles are used?

  6. How would your answers change if the interval were and the width of each rectangle were ?