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6 Jan 2022
Given information
Given that,
and for
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
If is the number of rectangles, then the width of a rectangle is
We wanted to use left endpoints then the first rectangle would be height because they say , and then it would be the second rectangle ( 2nd term) that could be made arbitrarily large. But what we need to do is just for the first rectangle, we pick a sample point closer to , such as . It does not matter what the other rectangles use as we only need to look at the first term since that is the one that gets crazy.
Now, the area of the first rectangle would then be
is positive on the interval, so the whole sum is greater than the area of the first rectangle while is a finite number.
Again, if we increase , towards infinity then
The first term, and the entire sum go to infinity. A function is not integrable on a certain interval if the sum would go to (or ).