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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Integration by substitution

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I believe you've written your integral in invisible ink

OpenStudy (anonymous):

\[\int\limits_{}^{}1+ e ^{3x-2} \div e ^{3x} +3x\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

may you use residue theorem?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

whats that ?

zepdrix (zepdrix):

Your division symbol is making this a little tough to read, can you clarify what the problem is suppose to look like?\[\large \int\limits\frac{1+e^{3x-2}}{3x+e^{3x}}dx\]Or\[\large \int\limits \frac{1+e^{3x-2}}{e^{3x}}+3x \;dx\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

the first one

OpenStudy (anonymous):

but its not 3x-2 in the numerator its just e^3x

zepdrix (zepdrix):

Oh lol, that makes this quite a bit easier then :)

zepdrix (zepdrix):

\[\large \int\limits \frac{1+e^{3x}}{3x+e^{3x}}dx\] Make a `u substitution` letting \(\large u=3x+e^{3x}\).

zepdrix (zepdrix):

Taking the derivative of our substitution,\[\large du=(3+3e^{3x}) \;dx\]Factoring a 3 out of each term,\[\large du=3(1+e^{3x}) \;dx\]Divide both sides by 3,\[\large \frac{1}{3}du=(1+e^{3x}) \;dx\]

zepdrix (zepdrix):

Understand how to plug in your substitution? :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i'l let you know let me think thanks tho

OpenStudy (anonymous):

but my teacher told me everythig hasw to be i the same term or letter , so there cant be a x & a u in the equation

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ignore that last comment but bboth sides equaled each other out at the end is that normal ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

what do you mean? when you u substitute what you get for du hould cancel all the x terms

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so as @zepdrix said i plugged in du for du but what do i do next ?

zepdrix (zepdrix):

You'll be replacing all of the \(x\)'s and also \(dx\) with something involving \(u\)'s and \(du\) as Outkast mentioned.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

solve for dx and plug that in

OpenStudy (anonymous):

\[du=3(1+e^{3x})dx\] \[\frac{du}{3(1+e^{3x})}=dx\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

putting this in there and also \[u=3x+e^{3x}\], everything will be in u and the x terms will cancel

zepdrix (zepdrix):

So we're assigning this substitution,\[\large \color{orangered}{u=3x+e^{3x}}\]\[\large \color{royalblue}{\frac{1}{3}du=(1+e^{3x}) \;dx}\] \[\large \int\limits\limits \frac{\color{royalblue}{1+e^{3x}}}{\color{orangered}{3x+e^{3x}}}\color{royalblue}{dx} \qquad \rightarrow \qquad \int\limits\limits \frac{\color{royalblue}{\frac{1}{3}du}}{\color{orangered}{u}}\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

why did you divide ??

zepdrix (zepdrix):

?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

?

zepdrix (zepdrix):

Divide what? What are you talking about?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

why did you divide du by u

zepdrix (zepdrix):

It might be easier to read the integral if we write it like this,\[\large \int\limits\limits \frac{1+e^{3x}}{3x+e^{3x}}dx \qquad \rightarrow \qquad \int\limits\limits \frac{1}{3x+e^{3x}}(1+e^{3x})dx\]

zepdrix (zepdrix):

\[\large \int\limits\limits\limits \frac{1}{\color{orangered}{3x+e^{3x}}}\color{royalblue}{(1+e^{3x})dx} \qquad \rightarrow \qquad \int\limits\limits\limits \frac{1}{\color{orangered}{u}}\color{royalblue}{\left(\frac{1}{3}du\right)}\]

zepdrix (zepdrix):

You were confused because the du was on top I guess? :o

OpenStudy (anonymous):

is that the final answer

zepdrix (zepdrix):

No, we haven't even integrated yet. We've simplified the integral so it will be a lot easier to integrate from here.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ooooooooooh

zepdrix (zepdrix):

You can pull the 1/3 outside of the integral since it's just a constant. \[\large \frac{1}{3}\int\limits \frac{1}{u}du\] This is a good one to have memorized. Do you remember this integral? :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ya

OpenStudy (anonymous):

whats the antiderivative of 3x ?

zepdrix (zepdrix):

\[\large \frac{3x^2}{2}\] Hmm I'm not sure why that would apply here though :o

OpenStudy (anonymous):

to find the integral of e^3x

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