Calculus: Early Transcendentals (2nd Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Integration - 5.4 Working with Integrals - 5.4 Exercises - Page 381: 34

Answer

\[{{f}_{avg}}=5\]

Work Step by Step

\[\begin{align} & f\left( x \right)=5\left( 1+\cos x \right),\text{ on the interval }-\pi \le x\le \pi \\ & \text{The average is given by} \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{1}{b-a}\int_{a}^{b}{f\left( x \right)dx} \\ & \text{Therefore,} \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{1}{\pi -\left( -\pi \right)}\int_{-\pi }^{\pi }{5\left( 1+\cos x \right)dx} \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{5}{2\pi }\int_{-\pi }^{\pi }{\left( 1+\cos x \right)dx} \\ & 1+\cos x\text{ is even , then }\int_{-a}^{a}{f\left( x \right)}dx=2\int_{0}^{a}{f\left( x \right)dx} \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{5}{2\pi }\left( 2\int_{0}^{\pi }{\left( 1+\cos x \right)dx} \right) \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{5}{\pi }\int_{0}^{\pi }{\left( 1+\cos x \right)dx} \\ & \text{Integrating} \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{5}{\pi }\left[ x+\sin x \right]_{0}^{\pi } \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{5}{\pi }\left[ \pi +\sin \pi \right]-\frac{5}{\pi }\left[ 0+\sin 0 \right] \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=\frac{5}{\pi }\left[ \pi \right] \\ & {{f}_{avg}}=5 \\ \end{align}\]
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