When Europeans finally began to explore after the Crusades, they were aided in large
part by
A. Their vast knowledge of other cultures
B. Their benevolent approach to conquest
C. The sheer magnitude of their exploration fleets
D. The use of cannons and guns on their ships

The answer is    (d) 7/2======we have    we also  have an integral      notice how function f splits up at x = 0. there's a left piece and a right pieceso we'll need to do the same thing with our integral: split it at x = 0we use a property of integrals that allows us to split up and sum:     notice that for the piecewise function f, the function has the equationf(x) = x when x  ≤ 0. so for the integral  , f(x) = x so it changes into      for the piecewise function f, the function has the equationf(x) = x+1  when x  > 0. for the integral  , we have    therefore, back to our splitted integral:    

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