Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/ib/paper-3/19d/solution

Repeated integration by parts in
produces the first terms of the Taylor polynomial and leaves , proving the integral remainder in Taylor theorem
Apply the linear functional to this identity. It annihilates the Taylor polynomial, and commuting it with integration gives the Peano kernel theorem
For the midpoint quadrature rule on , , so . Its Peano kernel is
For , the formula gives
agreeing with .

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