Help Need to integrate to the arcsin(u) but don't know how

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Evaluate the integral:

(dx)(17x-x^2)^(-1/2)


...no clue
 
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for the arcsine, try integration by parts!
 
I don't know how to do that...

can you show me the steps?
 
Complete the square inside the radical.
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...

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