Calculus: Early Transcendentals (2nd Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Integration - 5.4 Working with Integrals - 5.4 Exercises - Page 382: 38

Answer

\[x={{\sin }^{-1}}\left( \frac{2}{\pi } \right)\]

Work Step by Step

\[\begin{align} & f\left( x \right)=\frac{\pi }{4}\sin x\text{ on }\left[ 0,\pi \right] \\ & \text{The average is given by} \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{1}{b-a}\int_{a}^{b}{f\left( x \right)dx} \\ & \text{Therefore,} \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{1}{\pi -0}\int_{0}^{\pi }{\left( \frac{\pi }{4}\sin x \right)dx} \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{1}{4}\int_{0}^{\pi }{\sin xdx} \\ & \text{Integrating} \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{1}{4}\left[ -\cos x \right]_{0}^{\pi } \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{1}{4}\left[ -\cos \pi +\cos 0 \right] \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{1}{4}\left[ 2 \right] \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{1}{2} \\ & \text{The point at which the given function equals its average value is} \\ & \frac{\pi }{4}\sin x=\frac{1}{2} \\ & \text{Solve for }x \\ & \sin x=\frac{2}{\pi } \\ & \text{For the interval }\left[ 0,\pi \right] \\ & \sin x=\frac{2}{\pi }\Rightarrow x={{\sin }^{-1}}\left( \frac{2}{\pi } \right) \\ \end{align}\]
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