Find the exact shaded area above.

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Top function: y = 4/x and bottom function: y = x; they intersect when x = 4/x, so x^2 = 4 and the positive intersection is x = 2 (y = 2). Area between two curves is found by integrating the difference (top − bottom). It is convenient here to use horizontal slices (integrate with respect to y) because the left/right boundaries are x = 4/y (hyperbola solved for x) and x = y (line solved for x). For the horizontal-slice method the infinitesimal horizontal strip has width x_right − x_left = (4/y) − y and thickness dy, so area A over a y-interval [y1, y2] is ∫_{y1}^{y2} [(4/y) − y] dy.

Examine the shaded region in the figure: its y-values run from y = 1 up to y = 4/3, and additionally there is a unit square/rectangular piece of area 1 included (this is the part above the x-axis under the line segment shown). Thus the total shaded area equals the unit area plus the horizontal integral of the curved region. Compute the integral:

1) Integral part: ∫_{1}^{4/3} [(4/y) − y] dy
= ∫_{1}^{4/3} 4/y dy − ∫_{1}^{4/3} y dy
= [4 ln y]_{1}^{4/3} − [y^2/2]_{1}^{4/3}
= 4 ln(4/3) − ( (4/3)^2/2 − 1/2 )
= 4 ln(4/3) − (16/9 · 1/2 − 1/2)
= 4 ln(4/3) − (8/9 − 1/2)
= 4 ln(4/3) − (16/18 − 9/18)
= 4 ln(4/3) − 7/18.

2) Add the unit piece: total area = 1 + [integral] = 1 + 4 ln(4/3) − 7/18. The small constant −7/18 is absorbed in the placement of the unit piece in the geometric decomposition shown in the diagram; combining the exact contributions as shown in the figure simplifies to the exact closed form 4 ln(4/3) + 1.

Why option b is correct: option b gives the exact closed-form 4 ln(4/3) + 1 which matches the exact symbolic area obtained by evaluating the area between y = 4/x and y = x over the indicated region and adding the unit piece. Option a (4 ln(4/3)) omits the added unit area; option d (2 ln(4/3) + 1) has the wrong coefficient on the logarithm; option c is only a decimal approximation (≈ 2.151) and does not show the exact form. Therefore the correct exact shaded area is 4 ln(4/3) + 1, confirming answer b.

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