The other tutor has set up the integrals for you. I'll draw some graphs and pictures to help you. The whole graph of xy=1 looks like thisBut we only use the one little sliver of it between x=1 and x-2. This is the region (area) to rotate, and you are to rotate it about the green line x=-1: When it gets rotated, it will look like this: It will have a big hole cut in the center. You are instructed to use the washer method. That's why the other tutor used two integrals. The figure has to be broken into two parts. If we could use the cylindrical shell method, we would not have to do that. But since your instructions specify that you are to use the washer or disk method, then we have no choice but to break it into two parts. Here are the two parts that represent the two integrals the other tutor used.: The reason we have to break it up is because the right end of a typical washer for the upper part of the solid is on the graph of xy = 1, but a typical washer for the bottom part of the solid is on the line x = 2. If we could take our element of area vertical instead of horizontal, as we would if we could use the cylindrical shell method, the top of the element of area would all lie on the curve xy = 1, and we would not have to break the solid. I am surprised that your teacher gave you this problem to do by the disk/washer method instead of waiting until you had studied the cylindrical shell method, and assigned it to be done that way. A typical washer for the upper part is A typical washer for the bottom part: Edwin