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by **stellar** on Wed May 06, 2009 12:23 am

Find the area of the region R bounded by the curves x=y^2 and y=x^2. i know i have 2 get both of them in terms of Y first before I can graph. I forgot how????

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by **Martingale** on Wed May 06, 2009 1:30 am

stellar wrote:Find the area of the region R bounded by the curves x=y^2 and y=x^2. i know i have 2 get both of them in terms of Y first before I can graph. I forgot how????

are you asking how you can get $x=y^2$ in the form $y=\cdots$ ?

by **stellar** on Wed May 06, 2009 1:45 am

yeh thnx

by **Martingale** on Wed May 06, 2009 1:59 am

stellar wrote:yeh thnx

just apply the square root to both sides

so $y=\pm\sqrt{x}$

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