Find the area enclosed between the curves and .
Answer up to 3 decimal places.
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The enclosed area is symmetric about the x -axis, and the two curves intersect at ( 0 , 1 ) and ( 0 , − 1 ) . As ∣ y ∣ ∗ 1 − y 2 ≥ y 2 − 1 for − 1 ≤ y ≤ 1 , it is probably easiest to integrate with respect to y from y = 0 to y = 1 and then multiply the result by 2 . This results in an area of
2 ∗ ∫ 0 1 ( y ∗ 1 − y 2 − ( y 2 − 1 ) ) d y = 2 ∗ [ − 3 ( 1 − y 2 ) 2 3 − 3 y 3 + y ] ,
which evaluated from y = 0 to y = 1 is 2 ∗ [ − 3 1 + 1 − ( − 3 1 ) ] = 2 .
Note that a substitution of u = 1 − y 2 was used to evaluate the first term of the integral.