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Problem
The region between the graph of and the -axis, shaded in this figure, has an area of 10 square units. What will be the area between the graph of and the -axis?

Solution
The graph of is just the graph of shifted two units to the right. To see this, note that if is a point on the graph of , then is on the graph of . Then the graph of is the graph of scaled by a factor of 3 in the vertical direction. To see this, note that if is on the graph of , then is on the graph of . Stretching a region in the plane by a factor of 3 in one dimension increases its area by a factor of 3, so the area between the graph of and the -axis is .
Final answer
30