To approximate the area between the curves $y = \sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi x}{4} \right)$ and $y = \cos^2 \left( \frac{\pi x}{4} \right)$ over the interval $0 \leq x \leq 1$ using the Midpoint Rule with $n = 4$, we follow these steps:

1. Determine the width of each subinterval:

The interval is $[0, 1]$, and we are dividing it into 4 subintervals, so the width of each subinterval is:

$\Delta x = \frac{1 - 0}{4} = \frac{1}{4}$

2. Identify the midpoints of each subinterval:

The subintervals will be:

[ [0, \frac{1}{4}], \quad [\frac{1}{4}, \frac{1}{2}], \quad [\frac{1}{2}, \frac{3}{4}], \quad [\frac{3}{4}, 1] ]

The midpoints of these subintervals are:

$x_1 = \frac{1}{8}, \quad x_2 = \frac{3}{8}, \quad x_3 = \frac{5}{8}, \quad x_4 = \frac{7}{8}$

3. Apply the Midpoint Rule:

The Midpoint Rule for approximating the area between two curves is:

$\text{Area} \approx \Delta x \sum_{i=1}^{n} \left( f \left( x_i \right) - g \left( x_i \right) \right)$

where:

• $f(x) = \sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi x}{4} \right)$
• $g(x) = \cos^2 \left( \frac{\pi x}{4} \right)$

Thus, the approximation becomes:

$\text{Area} \approx \frac{1}{4} \left( \left( \sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{4} \times \frac{1}{8} \right) - \cos^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{4} \times \frac{1}{8} \right) \right) + \cdots + \left( \sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{4} \times \frac{7}{8} \right) - \cos^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{4} \times \frac{7}{8} \right) \right) \right)$

Let's compute the values for each midpoint.

4. Compute the function values at each midpoint:

We'll calculate the values of $\sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi x}{4} \right)$ and $\cos^2 \left( \frac{\pi x}{4} \right)$ at each midpoint.

• For $x_1 = \frac{1}{8}$:

$\sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{4} \times \frac{1}{8} \right) = \sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{32} \right), \quad \cos^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{32} \right) = \cos^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{32} \right)$

• For $x_2 = \frac{3}{8}$:

$\sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{4} \times \frac{3}{8} \right) = \sin^2 \left( \frac{3\pi}{32} \right), \quad \cos^2 \left( \frac{3\pi}{32} \right)$

• For $x_3 = \frac{5}{8}$:

$\sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{4} \times \frac{5}{8} \right) = \sin^2 \left( \frac{5\pi}{32} \right), \quad \cos^2 \left( \frac{5\pi}{32} \right)$

• For $x_4 = \frac{7}{8}$:

$\sin^2 \left( \frac{\pi}{4} \times \frac{7}{8} \right) = \sin^2 \left( \frac{7\pi}{32} \right), \quad \cos^2 \left( \frac{7\pi}{32} \right)$

Let's now approximate these values and compute the area.

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