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Integral region graphThe shaded region, bounded by the vertical lines t = a, t = b, the t-axis, and the graph of f, is denoted by a bf(t)dt. Finding the areas of irregular regions was one of the motivations for the discovery of the calculus.

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Integral region graphThe shaded region, bounded by the vertical lines t = a, t = b, the t-axis, and the graph of f, is denoted by a bf(t)dt. Finding the areas of irregular regions was one of the motivations for the discovery of the calculus.

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