Creating my own change of variables to evaluate an integral

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The question asks me to evaluate the integral $$\iint_{R} e^{\frac{x+y}{x-y}} dA$$ where $R$ is trapezoid region with the vertices $(1,0), (2,0), (0,-2), (0,-1)$. I'm supposed to suggest a possible transformation and integrate and sketch the two regions.

My work :

Let the transformation be $u=x-y$, $v=x+y$

Then with some algebra, I get $x=\frac{u+v}{2}$, and $y=-\frac{1}{2} (u-v)$

$J(u,v)=\begin{vmatrix} \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\\ -\frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2} \end{vmatrix}=\frac{1}{2}$

When I sketch the region I have something like this on the xy plane

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On the uv plane the transformation looks like:

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So the integral becomes

$$\int_{1}^{2}\int_{-u}^{u} e^{\frac{v}{u}}*\frac{1}{2} dv du$$

$$\frac{1}{2}\int_{1}^{2}u\Big(e-\frac{1}{e}\Big)du$$

$$=\frac{1}{2}\Big(e-\frac{1}{e}\Big)*\frac{3}{2}=\frac{3}{4}\Big(e-\frac{1}{e}\Big)$$

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Your approach is nice and the calculation is well done. We can check it, by calculating it slightly different and look if the results coincide. We apply the identity \begin{align*} \frac{x+y}{x-y}=1+\frac{2y}{x-y} \end{align*} and consider \begin{align*} \iint_{R} e^{\frac{x+y}{x-y}} dA=e\iint_{R} e^{\frac{2y}{x-y}} dA\tag{1} \end{align*} We use the variable transformation \begin{align*} u&=y\qquad\qquad\qquad x=u+v\\ v&=x-y\qquad\qquad\ y=u \end{align*} The trapezoid regions have vertices \begin{align*} \mathrm{Tr}_{(x,y)}&=\{(0,-2),(0,-1),(1,0),(2,0)\}\\ \mathrm{Tr}_{(u,v)}&=\{(-2,2),(-1,1),(0,1),(0,2)\}\\ \end{align*} and the transformed region is given by the graphic below. enter image description here The Jacobian determinant is \begin{align*} J(u,v)= \begin{vmatrix} x_u&x_v\\ y_y&y_v\\ \end{vmatrix} = \begin{vmatrix} 1&1\\ 1&0 \end{vmatrix}=-1 \end{align*}

We obtain with the right-hand side of (1) \begin{align*} \color{blue}{e\iint_{R} e^{\frac{2y}{x-y}} dA} &=e\int_1^2\int_{-v}^0e^{\frac{2u}{v}}|-1|\,du\,dv\\ &=e\int_{1}^2\left.\frac{v}{2}e^{\frac{2u}{v}}\right|_{-v}^0\,dv\\ &=\frac{e}{2}\int_{1}^2v\left(1-e^{-2}\right)\,dv\\ &=\frac{1}{2}\left(e-\frac{1}{e}\right)\left.\frac{1}{2}v^2\right|_{1}^2\\ &\,\,\color{blue}{=\frac{3}{4}\left(e-\frac{1}{e}\right)} \end{align*} in accordance with OPs result.