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Area between a curve and a line or two curvesEdexcel International A Level Maths: Mind map

The formula
Intersections

Area between graphs

curve and line or two curves

upper − lowerintersectionslimits
Which is upper?
Subtract areas
Examples

Exam questions on Area between a curve and a line or two curves

  1. The line y=2xy=2x meets the curve y=6x−x2y=6x-x^2 at the origin OO and at the point AA.
    Find the area of the finite region bounded by the line and the curve.2 marks
  2. The curve y=x2y=x^2 and the line y=x+2y=x+2 intersect at the points PP and QQ.
    Find the area of the region bounded by the curve y=x2y=x^2, the xx-axis and the lines x=−1x=-1 and x=2x=2.2 marks
  3. The curve CC has equation y=x2−4x+5y=x^2-4x+5 and the line ll has equation y=x+1y=x+1.
    Find the coordinates of the points where ll meets CC.3 marks
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Written by the Exaim team, led by Shaun Daswani (Head of Upper Secondary, Improve ME Institute; MSc Financial Mathematics, Imperial College London; BSc, UCL) and Jason Daswani (operational lead, Improve ME Institute; LSE).