Integrate a plane over a rectangular region and what do you get?
Let $f(x,y)=a+mx+ny$
and consider the rectangle $[0,1]\times[0,1]$.
- Compute $\int_{0}^1\int_{0}^1f(x,y)dxdy$. Remember that the
integral of a sum is still the sum of the integrals...
- Compute the trapezoidal approximation, using the corners.
- Compute the midpoint approximation, using the center point.
- Which method is best? (trick question!)