009B Sample Final 3, Problem 6

Find the following integrals

(a)  $\int {\frac {3x-1}{2x^{2}-x}}~dx$

(b)  Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \int \frac{\sqrt{x+1}}{x}~dx}

Foundations:
Through partial fraction decomposition, we can write the fraction
Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \frac{1}{(x+1)(x+2)}=\frac{A}{x+1}+\frac{B}{x+2}}
for some constants Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle A,B.}

Solution:

(a)

Step 1:
First, we factor the denominator to get
Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \int \frac{3x-1}{2x^2-x}~dx=\int \frac{3x-1}{x(2x-1)}.}
We use the method of partial fraction decomposition.
We let
Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \frac{3x-1}{x(2x-1)}=\frac{A}{x}+\frac{B}{2x-1}.}

Step 2:

(b)

Step 1:

Step 2:

Final Answer:
(a)
(b)

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