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Example 1
Total Cost
Your cellular phone company offers you an innovative pricing scheme. When you make a call, the marginal cost
of the t-th minute of the call will be
c(t) = 20/(t + 100) $/min.
Use a numerical calculation to estimate the cost of a 60 minute phone call.
Solution
As we see in the text, the total cost is given by the definite integral,
60
20t+100 dt
0
Computing this integral numerically amounts to breaking the interval [0, 60] into a large number of short
intervals, and adding up the costs over these intervals. The smaller the interval, the more accurate the answer.
Thus, let us begin by deciding on the number of divisions we will use, and setting up all the values of t.
n
a
b
Delta t
120
0
60
0.5
t
t starts at a.
Add Delta t
at each step.
The
The
The
The
number of subdivisions
start of the time-interval (lower limit of integration)
end of the time-interval upper limit of integration)
width of each subinterval, given by (b-a)/n (look at its formula -- do not change this valu
c(t)
c(t)*Delta t
Riemann Sum
0
marginal cost
te the answer.
=IF(t<$B$27,20/(t+100),0)
0/(t+100) if t < b, and sets it equal
. (See the tutorial for Section 1.1 for
e "IF" function.)