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I think there is a problem there, considering the upper limit and the denominator.
And Wolfram says "integral does not converge".
 

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I think there is a problem there, considering the upper limit and the denominator.
And Wolfram says "integral does not converge".
Ah upper limit is supposed to be 1/2, not 1 sorry about that.
 

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I can only turn this into a recurrence relation leading to (ln3)/2 minus a sum of n terms, each term being 1/[(2k-1).2^k]. Is this correct, and is it possible to sum this series?
 

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Then just integrate this which is straight forward.
Interesting method, nice work.

Alternatively, if we consider the integral to be I_n
We find that I(n-1)-I(n) = (something integratable)
Then take a sum of both sides from k=1 to n, the LHS telescopes to leave I(1) and I(n), the RHS being an unevaluatable sum.

I can only turn this into a recurrence relation leading to (ln3)/2 minus a sum of n terms, each term being 1/[(2k-1).2^k]. Is this correct, and is it possible to sum this series?
Yep that is the simplest form one can get it at HSC level, I think it might have something to do with harmonic numbers however if we were to evaluate it in terms of those terms.
 
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Keeping all the logs separate gives:

I don't think that is correct, some of your logarithms look similar to my ones so you may have made a mistake somwhere.
 
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My answer was



Solution:





 
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I got ln[(x+(1/x))+sqrt[x^2+(1/x)^2] + C
Yep this is what I was aiming at, divide both top and bottom by x^2, then substiute u=x+1/x, it dissolves into a standard integral.

Asianese and Realise your answers may be of a different form that can be manipulated using log properties or something.
 

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Yep this is what I was aiming at, divide both top and bottom by x^2, then substiute u=x+1/x, it dissolves into a standard integral.

Asianese and Realise your answers may be of a different form that can be manipulated using log properties or something.
Thing is though, by dividing by x at the bottom and bottom then applying x=sqrt(x^2) we are assuming that x>0. So we've restricted the integrand to x>0 I think.
 
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I just checked in wolfram alpha - my answer was correct (differentiate the integral and get the same thing).

Scribbling some shit down with the logs you get the same answer as yours.
 

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Thing is though, by dividing by x at the bottom and bottom then applying x=sqrt(x^2) we are assuming that x>0. So we've restricted the integrand to x>0 I think.
Yeah that's true....
 

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Lel Syd Grammy 2011.
Originally STEP 200(something)!

Fun fact, some CSSA questions are directly ripped from a STEP paper. (i.e. 2011 Q7a, 2011 Q8b)
That is the only CSSA paper that I've seen so far, I'm going to start doing the other ones soon, but I'm guessing that even from the earlier CSSA papers there are STEP rips.
 
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Lel inception of maths questions.
 
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