Standing Waves Proof for Open-Open Tubes

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My teacher assigned me to prove open-closed and closed-closed standing waves patterns using math.
With closed-closed, it was fairly easy:

$$\begin{align}
D(x=0,t)&=0\\
D(x=L,t)&=0=2A\sin(kx)
\end{align}$$
Isolate $$L$$ to find that $$\lambda=2L/m$$.
Similarly for closed-open.
$$\begin{align}
D(x=0,t)&=0\\
D(x=L,t)&=\pm 1=2A\sin(kx)\\
\lambda&=4L/m.
\end{align}$$
I wanted to prove open-open too. But I am stuck.
I know that:
$$\begin{align}
D(x=0,t)&=2A\cos(\omega t) \\
D(x=L,t)&=2A\cos(\omega t).
\end{align}$$

Where do I go next?
 
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I'm not quite sure what the D() function represents. Judging from the factor 2 on the right hand side it represents the range of 'y', e.g. range of movement of air. That being so, eqn 4 should read ##A-(-A)=2A\sin(kL)## (where, presumably, k and λ are the same thing).
Equations 6 and 7 seem to have gone off in a different direction, using the traveling wave equations at x=0. Applying equation 4 at x=0 and x=L would be the logical continuation.