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Can someone please help me with part d, I've done all the other parts except for it? I'm not really sure how to approach it, but i know part c must be used somewhere in there.

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Can someone please help me with part d, I've done all the other parts except for it? I'm not really sure how to approach it, but i know part c must be used somewhere in there.

Thanks :)
Using part c), here, , so .

Part c) tells you to replace every x in the integrand with (a + bx), and that the integral will be the same value.

In this case, when you replace the numerator's x with , it becomes . Notice that the denominator actually remains the same, because becomes , which, if you do the algebra, is the same as .

So by part c), we have

(by the Pythagorean trig. identity for the last equality).

Now, rearranging the equality



yields

(by part b))

so that

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