Plot the 7 points and connect them:
When we rotate it about the x axis, we'll have a solid figure
with this mid-cross section:
It says just to estimate the volume. So it may be that your teacher
just wants you to average up those 7 y-values like this:
=
and then assume the volume is about the same volume as a cylinder with
a radius of like the cylinder which the green lines
represent a mid-cross section of below:
If that's the kind of estimate your teacher wants, then we
just use the volume of a cylinder with that average y-value
as a its radius. The cylinder's height h (measured horizontally)
is 3 units,
The formula for the volume of a cylinder is
V = = = 35.57565167
So that ought to be a pretty good estimate, about 36 cubic units.
Maybe that's all your teacher wants.
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Just for fun, let's find the true volume: and compare:
We'll divide that mid-cross section into 6 little trapezoids:
Each of those trapezoids is a mid cross section of a frustrum of
a cone, with height h, and the right and left radii are the
values of f(x). The formula for the volume of a frustrum of a
cone is:
The height of each one is so the above will become:
Let the volumes of the frustrums of the cones be V1,...,V6
Total volume =
Since all are multiplied by
Total volume =
=
That rounds to 36 cubic units, so the estimate using the cylinder was pretty good.
Edwin