Question: ( a ) Use the substitution u = 1 + x 6 to compute x 5 1 + x 6 d x . ( b

(a) Use the substitution u=1+x6 to compute x51+x6dx.
(b) Use the substitution u=x3 to compute x21+x6dx.
Hint: Remember the derivative of arctan(u).
(c) Find two numbers m and n so that xm1+x10dx can be computed using a strategy very similar to part (a), and xn1+x10dx can be computed using a strategy very similar to part (b). Explain your reasoning.
2. A car is driving along a road. At time t, measured in minutes past 12:00, its velocity is f(t)=1200+900t feet per minute.
(a) Find the distance traveled by the car from 12:00 to 12:04, by writing down an integral and then computing it. Your answer should be fully simplified with correct units.
(b) Let g(s) be the car's velocity in feet per second at time s, where s is the number of seconds past 12:00. Do a unit conversion of the formula f(t)=1200+900t to determine the formula for g(s). Hint: Since t is the number of minutes past 12:00 while s is the number of seconds past 12:00, it is true that s=60t(and t=s60). Taking f(t)=1200+900t and substituting t=s60 gives the velocity in feet per minute at time s seconds past 12:00. There is one more step to get the formula for g(s).
(c) Use your g(s) formula from part (b) to write down a ds integral for the distance traveled by the car from 12:00 to 12:04.(Hint: What value of s corresponds to the time 12:04?) Compute the integral and check that your answer is the same as in part (a).
(d) Use the substitution s=60t to convert your dt integral from part (a)
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into a ds integral. Make sure also to change the limits of integration. Check that the resulting ds integral is the same as the one you computed in part (c). The lesson is that the process of substituting s=60t effectively changes the time units from minutes to seconds in the problem.
3. In this problem you will compute the integral 2sin(x)cos(x)dx in three different ways.
(a) Compute the integral using the substitution u=sin(x).
(b) Compute the integral using the substitution u=cos(x).
(c) Compute the integral by applying the trig identity 2sin(x)cos(x)=sin(2x) and then using the substitution u=2x.
(d) Use the linked graph to explain why all three answers to parts (a),(b),(c) are correct even though they look different.
(e) Compute 022sin(x)cos(x)dx three different times, using your answers to parts (a),(b), and (c), and check that all three computations give the same result.
( a ) Use the substitution u = 1 + x 6 to compute

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