Integral form of Particular solution question

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Homework Statement


I'm fine with the first part. Part b) is causing me trouble
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I tried subbing in the solution y1 into the given equation, but I'm not sure how to differentiate this, i thought of using integration by parts, Maybe i could guess the form of the solution, but so far I can't seem to get anything close to what is required
 
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Hi rohanlol7:

Given an integral of the form
Y(x) = ∫0x y(x)dx​
dY(x)/dx = y(x).

Hope this helps.

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Sorry. I was careless reading the problem. Dicks' post should help.

Regards,
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