Practice question · True or false
= 0 for any continuous function f.
Hints
- Picture the region being measured: what is its width?
- Zero width leaves no area, whatever the height of the function.
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True
Why
A definite integral over a degenerate interval [a, a] has zero width and hence zero area.
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