How can you integrate this?

Calculus Level 2

0 4 x 1 d x = ? \large \int_0^4 \lceil x-1 \rceil \, dx = \, ?

Notation : \lceil \cdot \rceil denotes the ceiling function .


The answer is 6.

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1 solution

Hassan Abdulla
May 11, 2018

I = 0 4 x 1 d x = k = 0 3 k k + 1 x 1 d x \large I=\int _{ 0 }^{ 4 }{ \lceil x-1\rceil dx } =\sum _{ k=0 }^{ 3 }{ \int _{ k }^{ k+1 }{ \lceil x-1\rceil dx } }

I = k = 0 3 k k + 1 ( k ) d x since k 1 x 1 k \begin{matrix} I=\sum _{ k=0 }^{ 3 }{ \int _{ k }^{ k+1 }{ (k)dx } } & & \color{#3D99F6} \text { since } k-1\le x-1\le k \end{matrix}

I = k = 0 3 k [ k + 1 k ] = k = 0 3 k = 0 + 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 I=\sum _{ k=0 }^{ 3 }{ k\left[ k+1-k \right] } =\sum _{ k=0 }^{ 3 }{ k } =0+1+2+3=6

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