Calculus problem #2030

Calculus Level 4

What is the volume of the tetrahedron bounded by the planes x + 2 y + z = 2 x+2y+z=2 , x = 2 y x=2y , x = 0 x=0 , and z = 0 z=0 ?


The answer is 0.333333.

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z z bounds: 0 z 2 x 2 y 0 \leq z \leq 2 - x - 2y

Projection into xy-plane: x + 2 y = 2 , x = 2 y , x = 0 x + 2y = 2, x = 2y, x = 0 .

x 2 y 1 x 2 \rightarrow \frac{x}{2} \leq y \leq 1 - \frac{x}{2} with x x in [ 0 , 1 ] [0, 1] .

Therefore, the volume equals :

= x = 0 x = 1 y = x 2 y = 1 x 2 z = 0 z = 2 x 2 y 1 d z . d y . d x =\int_{x=0}^{x=1}\int_{y=\frac{x}{2}}^{y=1-\frac{x}{2}}\int_{z=0}^{z=2-x-2y} 1 dz.dy.dx

= x = 0 x = 1 y = x 2 y = 1 x 2 ( 2 x 2 y ) d y . d x =\int_{x=0}^{x=1}\int_{y=\frac{x}{2}}^{y=1-\frac{x}{2}} (2 - x - 2y) dy.dx

= x = 0 x = 1 [ ( 2 x ) y y 2 ] =\int_{x=0}^{x=1} [(2 - x)y - y^2] {for y = x 2 y = \frac{x}{2} to 1 x 2 1 - \frac{x}{2} } d x dx

= x = 0 x = 1 [ ( 2 x ) ( 1 x 2 ) ( 1 x 2 ) 2 ] [ ( 2 x ) x 2 ( x 2 ) 2 ] d x =\int_{x=0}^{x=1} [(2 - x)(1 - \frac{x}{2}) - (1 - \frac{x}{2})^2] - [(2 - x) \frac{x}{2} - (\frac{x}{2})^2] dx

= x = 0 x = 1 ( x 2 2 x + 1 ) d x =\int_{x=0}^{x=1} (x^2 - 2x + 1) dx

= x = 0 x = 1 ( x 1 ) 2 d x =\int_{x=0}^{x=1} (x - 1)^2 dx

= ( x 1 ) 3 3 = \frac{(x - 1)^3}{3} {for x = 0 x = 0 to 1 1 }

= 1 3 = \frac{1}{3}

= 0.333 =\boxed{0.333}

Jatinder Singh
Feb 3, 2014

solving we get vertices as O(0,0,0) , A(0,1,0), B(0,0,2) and C(1,0.5,0) therefore vol= 1/6 *[ a, b c]=0.3333

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