Avien Jeremy S.

Reyes June 20, 2021

Summative Assessment 2 on Basic Calc. S11-10

Headphone as Parabola

I am a big fan of music, I always jam along with music K-Pop, Pop and etc. And as a
music lover I’ve been trying to provide myself a portable headphones which I can use for
listening to music, currently I have a headphone which has been taped to hold, because
recently my little sister accidentally laid down on it and broke it, now I have to tape so it
can hold on my head and not slip down. Now that it is broken, I remember the time when
it was forming a perfect curve, just like a parabola! Speaking of parabola, I still remember
this topic back when we were in Gr 9. We used to study about parabola, now I’ve decided
to put my headphones in a graph, maybe using a Desmos app will be helpful.
From the graph above, we can see that y = -0.4 (x – 4)2 + 6.75, given that the x-axis is
4 and intervals is 8. Now if we are going to use Riemann sum midpoint, what would be
the possible area covered by the headphone?

Representation:

Now, let n, a & b be the numbers of rectangles upper and lower intervals. Let A, ∆𝑥 and
f(x1) be the height, width and area of the rectangles itself.

Vertex Formula and Solution – y = a (x - h)2 + k

y = -0.4 (x – 4)2 + 6.75

Standard Form -

y = -0.4 (x – 4)2 + 6.75

y = -0.4 (x – 4)(x – 4) + 6.75 (FOIL Method)

y = -0.4 (x2 – 4x – 4x + 16) + 6.75

y = -0.4 (x2 – 8x + 16) + 6.75 (Distribute “a”)

y = -0.4x2 – 3.2x – 6.4 +6.75

y = -0.4x2 – 3.2x + 0.35

Equation:

The equation to be used:

A = (∆𝒙) f(x1) + (∆𝒙) f(x2) + (∆𝒙) f(xn)

Solution:

𝑏−𝑎
∆𝑥 =
𝑛

The x-axis and intervals [4,8], now a = 4 and b = 8.

The rectangles have equal widths along the x-axis and that can only be found by
dividing the length of each interval by the number of the rectangles itself.
Let n = 8.

Obvious from the graph that I have made above, I used 8 rectangles over the x-axis and
interval [4, 8], and the width of the rectangles are then shown below.

𝑏−𝑎 8−4 4 1
∆𝑥 = ∆𝑥 = ∆𝑥 = or / 0.5
𝑛 8 8 2

0.5 is now the width of each rectangle in the graph.

Since n = 8, we have 8 endpoints/ partition points now, and these are: x1, x2, x3, x4, x5,
x6, x7, and x8.

𝟏
Now solving for the partition points, again a is 4 and ∆𝒙 is 𝒐𝒓 𝟎. 𝟓.
𝟐

x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 b
a a + ∆𝒙 a + 2∆𝒙 a + 3∆𝒙 a + 4∆𝒙 a + 5∆𝒙 a + 6∆𝒙 a + 7∆𝒙 8
4 4+½ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+
= 9/2 (2)1/2 (3)1/2 (4)1/2 (5)1/2 (6)1/2 (7)1/2
or 4.5 =5 =6 =7
 = 11/2 = 13/2 = 15/2
or 5.5 or 6.5 or 7.5

Finding the area.

Now after solving the partition points which measures at 0.5, let’s now find the
measurements of each rectangles by also using the given measurement of the partition
points.

Left Partition Points xi f(xi) = x2

a = x1 4 f(4) = 16
 x2 9/2 f(9/2) = 20.25
x3 5 f(5) = 25
x4 11/2 f(11/2) = 30.25
x5 6 f(6) = 36
x6 13/2 f(13/2) = 42.25
x7 7 f(7) = 49
x8 15/2 f(15/2) = 56.25
b 8

Answer:

A = (△x) f(x₁) + (△x) f(x₂) + (△x) f(x3) + (△x) f(x4) + (△x) f(x5) + (△x) f(x6) + (△x)
f(x7) + + (△x) f(x8)

𝟏 𝟏 𝟏 𝟏 𝟏 𝟏
A = (𝟐) (16) + (𝟐) (20.25) + (𝟐) (25) + (𝟐) (30.25) + (𝟐) (36) + (𝟐) (42.25) +
𝟏 𝟏
(𝟐) (49) + (𝟐) (56.25)

A = 137.5

The answer from all the computation, is 137.5mm or 13.75cm.