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title: "R Problem due Tuesday 10/2"
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Acknowledgements: ADD NAMES HERE IF ANYONE ASSISTED YOU.  

**Email knitted pdf file to tleise@amherst.edu by 4pm on the due date.**

## Read Problem 3.46 from the textbook. 

a. What are the necessary arguments/inputs for the function you are asked to construct?

> ANSWER

b. Write pseudocode to assist you in writing the required function. 

> ANSWER


c. Following your pseudocode, write the requested function.

> ANSWER

```{r}

```


d. Try your function on several values of the inputs where you expect the approximation to be good. Write a few sentences about what you find.

> ANSWER

```{r}
# be sure to test several values
```



e. Try your function on several values of the inputs where you expect the approximation to be poor. Write a few sentences about what you find.

> ANSWER

```{r}
# be sure to test several values
```

*Acknowledgement: Thank you to Prof Amy Wagaman for sharing this R problem for STAT 360.*