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A double integral

mark

Let T denote the triangle shown in the figure below. Use an iterated integral to evaluate

\iint_T xy\,dA.

fcarrill

So I set up my problem to be the graph is going from 0 to 1 in the x axis and the slope is 2-2x so my problem looks like \int_{0}^{1} \int_{0}^{2-2x} xy,dydx
Then I integrated by Y first so I got \int_{0}^{1}\frac{xy^2}{2} |_{0}^{2-2x}
Then I get \int_{0}^{1} \frac{x(2-2x)^2}{2}
\frac{2x^2-2x^4}{2}
\int_0^1 x^2-x^4
\frac{x^3}{3}-\frac{x^5}{5}|_{0}^{1}
\frac{1}{3}-\frac{1}{5}
\frac{5}{15}-\frac{3}{15}
=\frac{2}{15}

myost

Set up integral as:

\int_{0}^{1} \int_{0}^{2-2x} xy, dydx

integrate with respect to y first. you get \frac{1}{2}xy^2|_{0}^{2-2x} then integrate with respect to x:

\int_{0}^{1} 2x-4x^2-2x^3 , dx

you get x^2-\frac{4}{3} x^3+\frac{1}{2}x^4 |_{0}^{1} which is equal to \frac{1}{6}