Jenny vs.

Jane Battle: Solids of Revolution

Question
Rival Mathemon trainers, Jane and Jenny,
are trapped in the forest and surrounded by
wild Mathemon agitated by Jenny’s constant
disturbance of peace through a series of
attacks. Jane is a witness of this abuse and
she does her best to protect the wild
Mathemon by challenging Jenny to a battle
to stop her vicious ways.
You have challenged Rival Jenny!

Jenny sent out Revoloo!

“Go! Gralinte!!”
Jenny used a DIAGRAM!

Let R be the shaded region bounded by the graphs of

−2x
y = 6x , y = e and the vertical line x=1.

The foe’s Revoloo’s DEF has

risen!
Jane used an INT BOOST!

Gralinte’s intelligence has risen!

The foe’s Revoloo used QUESTION!!

 Find the area of the enclosed region

R.

It’s a critical hit! Gralinte takes 12 damage!

Gralinte used POINTS OF INTERSECTION!

One of the definitions of integration can be

known as finding the area underneath a
curve. In this case, R is the area that needs
to be integrated.

But since R is not infinitely continuous and

occurs on a closed interval, the points of
intersection must be found in order for the
area to be integrated.
To find the points of intersection, make both
functions equal to each other and find the
values where these functions meet.

There are two ways that you can do this.

Manually, you can find the value(s) of x, or
you can use the intersect function on your
calculator. In this specific case, it is
integrated to 1, since it was given that it is
enclosed by the vertical line x=1.
The point of intersection occur at approx.
x=0.1081. But since that number is quite
complex, we can assign a letter to that
number. So we can let T=0.1081.

The foe’s Revoloo took 9 damage!

Revoloo is paralyzed!
Gralinte used INTEGRATION!

d
t
Now knowing the intersections, we can now use those as our
interval from which we are going to integrate and find the area
for. Remember that we let T = 0.1081 since we wouldn’t want
to waste our time rewriting such complex numbers all the time.
Solving for this using our calculators we should get….

A≈1.2398 units²
Revoloo took 6 damage!
“Hmph, you think you’re so tough Janey
Poo? See if you can handle this next attack!
Go get’em Revoloo!”
Revoloo used QUESTION!

(b) Find the volume of the solid

generated when R is revolved about
the x-axis.

It’s a critical hit! Gralinte takes 17

damage!
Gralinte used INTEGRATION!

In every math problem lies a pattern. In this case, when we

revolve something around the x-axis or a horizontal line,
the pattern is in the general formula of how to revolve
shapes around this axis.

The volume for revolution around a horizontal line or the x-

axis is equal to the integral of the area of a circle, which is
πr2. This is because the cross sections of the area itself is in
the shape of a circle as it revolves around the specific axis
of rotation.
Since the area is consisted of
two different curves, the cross
section looks like a washer.
The upper function will be the
bigger radius R, and the lower
function will be the smaller
radius, r. As seen here:
In general, we should know that to find the volume of a
washer type question, we will need to take the area of
the large circle and the area of the small circle and then
subtract them from each other. From there, just
integrate along the interval, or through the
intersections.

dx

ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE! Revoloo takes 24

damage!
Revoloo used DUST!

Gralinte has been blinded! Gralinte takes 2

damage!

“Gralinte, that’s enough! Come back!

Go, Derivee!”
Derivee used ANTI DIFFERENTIATE!

Before we begin anti differentiating, let’s first simplify the

integral to make it easier.

dx

From here, we can use simple anti differentiation rules to anti

differentiate.
We can now finish the question by applying our knowledge of
the fundamental theorem of calculus, which is that the
integral of a derivative = total change in the parent function
along the same interval. Previously, we found the parent
function so now all that’s left is to solve. Our approximate
answer should be:

V ≈ 2.8073π units 3

Revoloo took 12 damage!

“You think you’re so great? There’s no way
I’d let you win! Wasn’t it obvious that I was
just playing around? Well, no more fooling
around! Take this!”
Revoloo used QUESTION!

(c)The region R is the base of a solid. For

this solid, each cross section perpendicular
to the x-axis is a rectangle whose height is 5
times the length of its base in region R. Find
the volume of this solid.

Derivee is crushed by the sudden

overwhelming attack! Derivee takes 19
damage!
Derivee used LIST!
The question has already given us two key things which is
the base and height of the rectangle as shown here:

height = 5 L L = 6x − e −2 x

Like the previous part, we should also be able to find the

volume of the solid by taking the area of said solid and
integrating it. The interval will remain the same since that
is where the actual solid starts and ends.

A = lwh
Revoloo takes 10 damage! Revoloo is stunned
and is in critical condition!
“Derivee, that’s enough! Come
back!
Go! Gralinte!!”
Gralinte used INTEGRATION!
As stated earlier, to find the volume all we have to do is
integrate the area of the rectangle. Let’s first take a look at
the rectangle so that we know how to substitute in our
values.
The width, as you can see, is basically the infinitely small values of
“x” as you go along the interval. Since it is so small, we just leave
it as “dx”.

Now knowing all our values, we can now integrate:

Then solve:
The foe’s Revoloo has fainted! Gralinte gained 42
EXP. Points! Gralinte grew to LV 4!