Correcting Errors in Conservative Line Integral Calculation

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I am having question with part c , for both c1 and c2 , here's my working for c1 , i didnt get the ans though . My ans is -5 , but the given ans for c1 and c2 is 27 , is the ans wrong ? Or which part i did wrongly ?

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