CAIE Further Paper 2 2020 November — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleFurther Paper 2 (Further Paper 2)
Year2020
SessionNovember
TopicSequences and series, recurrence and convergence

  1. By considering the sum of the areas of the rectangles, show that $$\int _ { 0 } ^ { 1 } \left( 1 - x ^ { 3 } \right) d x \leqslant \frac { 3 n ^ { 2 } + 2 n - 1 } { 4 n ^ { 2 } }$$
  2. Use a similar method to find, in terms of \(n\), a lower bound for \(\int _ { 0 } ^ { 1 } \left( 1 - x ^ { 3 } \right) \mathrm { dx }\).