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Ch. 8 - Techniques of Integration
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Capitolo 8, Problema 8.7.20b

In Exercises 11–22, estimate the minimum number of subintervals needed to approximate the integrals with an error of magnitude less than 10^-4 by (b) Simpson’s Rule. (The integrals in Exercises 11–18 are the integrals from Exercises 1–8.)
∫ from 0 to 3 of 1/√(x + 1) dx

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Identify the integral to approximate: \(\int_0^3 \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}} \, dx\).
Recall the error bound formula for Simpson's Rule: \(|E_S| \leq \frac{(b - a)^5}{180 n^4} \max_{a \leq x \leq b} |f^{(4)}(x)|\), where \(n\) is the number of subintervals (and must be even).
Compute the fourth derivative \(f^{(4)}(x)\) of the function \(f(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}} = (x + 1)^{-1/2}\).
Find the maximum absolute value of \(f^{(4)}(x)\) on the interval \([0, 3]\) by evaluating or estimating \(|f^{(4)}(x)|\) over this range.
Set the error bound \(\frac{(3 - 0)^5}{180 n^4} \max |f^{(4)}(x)| < 10^{-4}\) and solve this inequality for \(n\) to find the minimum even number of subintervals needed.

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