How to Reduce a Function to a Hypergeometric Using a Change of Variables?

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I'm having difficulty in solving an exercise.

http://imageshack.us/a/img542/484/765z.jpg

They ask to reduce it to
http://imageshack.us/a/img203/3986/lwqb.jpg
making the change of variables x=r^2/(r^2+1)

and then to reduce it to a hypergeometric , using http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/4479/syz6.jpg


Thanks in advance
 
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