Find the Volume of the Solid Generated by Revolving the Region

question 6

Short Answer

Find the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region bounded by the graphs of the equations about the indicated axis. $$y = \frac { e ^ { x / 2 } } { \left( 1 + e ^ { x } \right) ^ { 5 / 2 } } , \quad y = 0 , \quad x = 0 , x = 4 \text {; the } x \text {-axis }$$

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Definitions:

Poisson Distribution

A discrete frequency distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space.

Probability

The calculation of how likely an event is to occur, with its value determined to be between 0 and 1.

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Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that models the number of times an event occurs within a fixed interval of time or space.