Area Enclosed by yaxis

In this page area enclosed by yaxis we are going to see some example problems to know how to find area bounded by region and y-axis.

Area enclosed by yaxis: Examples

Example 1:

Find the area bounded by the curve y = 2x + 1, y = 3, y = 5 and y-axis.

Solution:

First let us draw the rough graph for the given line. For that we need to find x and y intercepts.

x-intercept :                                    y-intercept :

put y = 0                                         put x = 0

0 = 2x + 1                                        y = 2 (0) + 1

2x + 1 = 0                                        y = 0 + 1

     2x = -1                                       y = 1

      x = -1/2

      x = - 0.5

So we got two points (-0.5, 0) and (0, 1)

The required area is right side of the y-axis. So we need to use the following formula.

Now we need to change this equation in terms of y

  y = 2x + 1

  2x = y - 1

   x = (y-1)/2

Example 2:

Find the area bounded by the curve y = 2x + 4, y = 1, y = 3 and y-axis.

Solution:

First let us draw the rough graph for the given line. For that we need to find x and y intercepts.

x-intercept :                                    y-intercept :

put y = 0                                         put x = 0

0 = 2x + 4                                        y = 2 (0) + 4

2x + 4 = 0                                        y = 0 + 4

     2x = -4                                       y = 4

      x = -4/2

      x = - 2

So we got two points (-2, 0) and (0, 4)

The required area is left side of the y-axis. So we need to use the following formula.

Now we need to change this equation in terms of y

  y = 2x + 4

  2x = y - 4

   x = (y-4)/2

  -x = (4-y)/2

Note:

• In these type of problems,  graph is very important to find out the limits.
• Without the graph to determine which function is the upper one and which one is the lower one, is difficult.
• Area between two curves is always positive. If we get negative answer then we will come to know that we had done some mistake and we can correct it.

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