When is graphed, all areas below and on/above the curve are shaded. If the area of the shaded region is , find .
Notations :
denotes the absolute value function .
denotes the floor function .
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The simplest way to solve this problem is to graph y = 7 (blue) and y = ∣ x ∣ + 2 ∣ x + 1 ∣ − 3 ∣ x + 2 ∣ + 4 ∣ x + 3 ∣ (red). This is how it looks:
The shaded areas are the ones we’re looking for. The first (bigger) one is a triangle with height 3 and base 1.5, and the other has base 1 and height 1. Their areas are 2.25 and 0.5, total 2.75. Therefore
ε
=
2
.
7
5
. Multiplied by 1000 this becomes 2750 which is our solution.
(The floor function won’t do anything to an integer so we can just skip it.)