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$$int_0^6 |x^2 - 6x +8| dx =$$
I know the answer to this problem is $frac{44}3$. But, how do you get that? How does the solution change based on the absolute value? Without the absolute value I got an answer of 12 - I found the anti-derivative:$frac{x^3}3-3x^2+8x$. I then solved it which got me 12. However, this is not the answer to the above problem. What should I be doing?

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I know the answer to this problem is $frac{44}3$. But, how do you get that? How does the solution change based on the absolute value? Without the absolute value I got an answer of 12 - I found the anti-derivative:$frac{x^3}3-3x^2+8x$. I then solved it which got me 12. However, this is not the answer to the above problem. What should I be doing?

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I know the answer to this problem is $frac{44}3$. But, how do you get that? How does the solution change based on the absolute value? Without the absolute value I got an answer of 12 - I found the anti-derivative:$frac{x^3}3-3x^2+8x$. I then solved it which got me 12. However, this is not the answer to the above problem. What should I be doing?

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The absolute value is a function that's very difficult to work with directly. But there's an easy way to deal with it:

$$
|y|=begin{cases} y &text{if }ygeq0\ -y &text{if }yleq0end{cases}
$$

So your first step is to find where the term inside the absolute value is positive and where negative. Then you break up the integral into pieces.

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Hint : $x^2-6x+8=(x-4)(x-2)$

Can you break domain $ [0,6]$ to get rid of absolute value notation?

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If the integrand were given without the absolute value then it would be negative in the interval $(2,4)$ hence the given integral is equal to
$$int_0^2 f(x)mathrm{d}x-int_2^4f(x)mathrm{d}x+int_4^6f(x)mathrm{d}x$$
where $f(x)=x^2-6x+8$.

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If $f(x)>0$ on an interval, then $|f(x)|=f(x)$ on that interval. If $f(x)<0$ on an interval, then $|f(x)|=-f(x)$ on that interval. That's basically the actual definition of the absolute value function.

On the interval $[2,4]$, $x^2-6x+8<0$. Everywhere else it's positive. Thus, your original integral is equivalent to the sum of the following three integrals:

$$
int_{0}^{2}(x^2-6x+8),dx+int_{2}^{4}left[-(x^2-6x+8)right],dx+int_{4}^{6}(x^2-6x+8),dx.
$$

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The absolute value is a function that's very difficult to work with directly. But there's an easy way to deal with it:

$$
|y|=begin{cases} y &text{if }ygeq0\ -y &text{if }yleq0end{cases}
$$

So your first step is to find where the term inside the absolute value is positive and where negative. Then you break up the integral into pieces.

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The absolute value is a function that's very difficult to work with directly. But there's an easy way to deal with it:

$$
|y|=begin{cases} y &text{if }ygeq0\ -y &text{if }yleq0end{cases}
$$

So your first step is to find where the term inside the absolute value is positive and where negative. Then you break up the integral into pieces.

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The absolute value is a function that's very difficult to work with directly. But there's an easy way to deal with it:

$$
|y|=begin{cases} y &text{if }ygeq0\ -y &text{if }yleq0end{cases}
$$

So your first step is to find where the term inside the absolute value is positive and where negative. Then you break up the integral into pieces.

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Hint : $x^2-6x+8=(x-4)(x-2)$

Can you break domain $ [0,6]$ to get rid of absolute value notation?

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Hint : $x^2-6x+8=(x-4)(x-2)$

Can you break domain $ [0,6]$ to get rid of absolute value notation?

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Hint : $x^2-6x+8=(x-4)(x-2)$

Can you break domain $ [0,6]$ to get rid of absolute value notation?

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If the integrand were given without the absolute value then it would be negative in the interval $(2,4)$ hence the given integral is equal to
$$int_0^2 f(x)mathrm{d}x-int_2^4f(x)mathrm{d}x+int_4^6f(x)mathrm{d}x$$
where $f(x)=x^2-6x+8$.

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If the integrand were given without the absolute value then it would be negative in the interval $(2,4)$ hence the given integral is equal to
$$int_0^2 f(x)mathrm{d}x-int_2^4f(x)mathrm{d}x+int_4^6f(x)mathrm{d}x$$
where $f(x)=x^2-6x+8$.

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If the integrand were given without the absolute value then it would be negative in the interval $(2,4)$ hence the given integral is equal to
$$int_0^2 f(x)mathrm{d}x-int_2^4f(x)mathrm{d}x+int_4^6f(x)mathrm{d}x$$
where $f(x)=x^2-6x+8$.

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If $f(x)>0$ on an interval, then $|f(x)|=f(x)$ on that interval. If $f(x)<0$ on an interval, then $|f(x)|=-f(x)$ on that interval. That's basically the actual definition of the absolute value function.

On the interval $[2,4]$, $x^2-6x+8<0$. Everywhere else it's positive. Thus, your original integral is equivalent to the sum of the following three integrals:

$$
int_{0}^{2}(x^2-6x+8),dx+int_{2}^{4}left[-(x^2-6x+8)right],dx+int_{4}^{6}(x^2-6x+8),dx.
$$

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If $f(x)>0$ on an interval, then $|f(x)|=f(x)$ on that interval. If $f(x)<0$ on an interval, then $|f(x)|=-f(x)$ on that interval. That's basically the actual definition of the absolute value function.

On the interval $[2,4]$, $x^2-6x+8<0$. Everywhere else it's positive. Thus, your original integral is equivalent to the sum of the following three integrals:

$$
int_{0}^{2}(x^2-6x+8),dx+int_{2}^{4}left[-(x^2-6x+8)right],dx+int_{4}^{6}(x^2-6x+8),dx.
$$

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If $f(x)>0$ on an interval, then $|f(x)|=f(x)$ on that interval. If $f(x)<0$ on an interval, then $|f(x)|=-f(x)$ on that interval. That's basically the actual definition of the absolute value function.

On the interval $[2,4]$, $x^2-6x+8<0$. Everywhere else it's positive. Thus, your original integral is equivalent to the sum of the following three integrals:

$$
int_{0}^{2}(x^2-6x+8),dx+int_{2}^{4}left[-(x^2-6x+8)right],dx+int_{4}^{6}(x^2-6x+8),dx.
$$

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