How Do You Integrate y=10/x^2 to Find Area Under the Curve?

Thread starter dan greig
Start date Apr 22, 2006
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Apr 22, 2006

dan greig

I have a question asking me to find the area under a curve, the curve is,

y=10/x^2

I know the process to find the area but I can't find how to integrate the fraction, some help would be appreciated,

thanks, dan

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