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The density at each point of a 1 centimeter square (i.e., each side has length 1 centimeter) microchip is 4 + r2 grams per square centimeter, where r is the distance in centimeters from the point to the center of the chip. What is the mass of the chip?

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We model the chip as the rectangle

Then the center is the point (0, 0) and the squared distance of a point (x, y) to the center is r2 = x2 + y2 . Thus the mass m can be computed as

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