What does that substitution do to the integral?What is the resulting integral?

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Homework Statement



Find the integral of:

[a*ln(b/(b -cx)) - kx] dx

Where all a,b,c,k are constants and x is the variable.

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The Attempt at a Solution


Rewrote is:
a*INT(ln(b/(b-cx)) dx) - k*INT(x dx)

I don't know how to solve the first part, (the second integral I know is kx^2/2)

Thank you for your help.
 
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You started attack and you have to continue.

∫a*(ln(b/(b-cx)) dx) = a*∫ln(b/(b-cx) dx

You have to remember basic property of logs! You can do this if you can do ∫ ln(b - cx) dx .

And you can do that if you can do ∫ln x dx .

If y = ln x , what does x = ?

What substitution for x does that suggest?
 
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