Calculus of Powers
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Can we find the area inside a straight line, a parabola and the x-axis?
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The figure shows the curve \(y = x^2\) and the straight line \(2x + y = 15\). Find […] the area of the shaded region.

Is there a way of viewing the region differently?

Could we, perhaps, view it as the sum of two simpler regions?

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UCLES O level Additional Mathematics 1, QP 471/1, 1977, Q3

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