5.3 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus/25
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Failed to parse (Conversion error. Server ("https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_") reported: "Cannot get mml. Server problem."): {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\int _{1}^{2}\left({\frac {3}{t^{4}}}\right)dt&=\int _{1}^{2}\left(3t^{-4}\right)\,dt\\[2ex]&={\frac {3t^{-4+1}}{-4+1}}{\bigg |}_{1}^{2}=-t^{-3}{\bigg |}_{1}^{2}\\[2ex]&=\left[-(2)^{-3}\right]-\left[-(1)^{-3}\right]\\[2ex]&=\left[-{\frac {1}{8}}\right]+[1]={\frac {7}{8}}\end{aligned}}}