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Okay, so the idea is that your shape will resemble a cone or in many of these cases the outside surface of the cone. The tangent from Q20a is .

Now the concept of integrating is to find the section under the curve.

Combining Q20a and what we know you are integrating . Now when you are finding the volume of several boundaries you are simply finding the volume of a cone.

When you are rotating around the x-axis you are treating the height of x as Infinitismal height which then becomes dx and then the radius of the cone is y so you are working with . To finish this off sub the equation for y and use reverse chain rule. Note the boundaries represent the height of the structure.

Similarly rotation around the y-axis implies that you treat the y-axis as height and the x-axis as radius.

For part b there is a clever way of doing the question. Find the volume of the solid formed when the region is rotated around the y-axis for just take away the volume from .

For part b you are working with
 
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Are you finding the volume of this shaded region?
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ohh so the volume of this triangular shaped region 1644641478622.png
 

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