Minimizing the integral

Calculus Level 5

Let f : [ 0 , 1 ] R f:[0,1] \to \mathbb R be a continuous function , find the maximum value of 0 1 x 2 f ( x ) d x 0 1 x f ( x ) 2 d x . \begin{aligned} \int_{0}^{1}x^2f(x) \, dx - \int_{0}^{1}xf(x)^2 \, dx. \end{aligned}


The answer is 0.0625.

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Anubhav Tyagi
Jan 3, 2017

0 1 ( x 2 f ( x ) x f ( x ) 2 ) d x = 0 1 [ x 3 4 x ( f ( x ) x 2 ) 2 ] d x \begin{aligned} \int_{0}^{1}\bigg(x^2f\big(x\big) - xf\big(x\big)^2\bigg)dx \\ =\int_{0}^{1}\bigg[\frac{x^3}{4} -x\Big(f\big(x\big) - \frac{x}{2}\Big)^2\bigg]dx \\ \end{aligned} Maximum value of integral is when f ( \big( x ) \big) = x 2 \frac{x}{2} . Hence maximum value of integral is : 0 1 x 3 4 d x = 1 16 = 0.0625 \begin{aligned} \int_{0}^{1}\frac{x^3}{4}dx = \frac{1}{16} = 0.0625 \\ \end{aligned}

Exactly.. +1

Archit Tripathi - 4 years, 5 months ago

The title should be "maximizing the integral"

Indraneel Mukhopadhyaya - 4 years, 5 months ago

Genius move.

Manjunath Bhat - 4 years, 4 months ago

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Thanks bro

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