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Gilbert Strang, Calculus, 3rd edition (Wellesley-Cambridge Press; MIT OpenCourseWare RES.18-001) §5.1 The Idea of the Integral, #14 · Calculus · Integrals

The optimist and pessimist arrive at the same limit as years are…

This problem is about the company earning per year.

The optimist and pessimist arrive at the same limit as years are divided into weeks, days, hours, seconds. Draw the curve between the rectangles to show why the pessimist is always too low and the optimist is too high.

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Gilbert Strang, Calculus, 3rd edition (Wellesley-Cambridge Press; MIT OpenCourseWare RES.18-001) · §5.1 The Idea of the Integral, #14

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