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hscishard

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Yes Sir!

a) Since it is Preliminary, Preliminary student's only answer this!

I will start with a basic question.

Express the following fraction in the partial form,

. Where and are constants.


The fraction is


For Preliminary students,

b) The roots of the equation are in the ratio of . Show that


For HSC students, [Sorry this question was on the thread already. Didn't know. Attempt it if you want anyway. No cheating. :)]

c) Differentiate with respect to ,

. Hence find the differential coefficient of

[Hint: Don't differentiate normally.]


For HSC students,

d) Show that and hence evaluate

Remarks: HSC students! Don't answer the Preliminary sections! Preliminary students! Attempt HSC questions if you can!
yea...noone answered my questions too here

Make RHS into one fraction then simplify
Use the show part, integrate and use log laws to simplify the answer to
0.5ln[(e+1)^2/e^2+1]
 

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yea...noone answered my questions too here

Make RHS into one fraction then simplify
Use the show part, integrate and use log laws to simplify the answer to
0.5ln[(e+1)^2/e^2+1]
I see little hscishard on page 1.
 

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For c, I got a pretty long answer...
I'm doubting it's accuracy since I did my working out on a paper that was already full of working out.

I'm pretty this method is correct
let y=x^x^x
Let u=x^x
Take ln on both sides and use implicit differentiation. I doubt this is a mathematics level question

LOL, I thought the question wanted me to differentiate x^x^x...
x^x is so much easier. Same method
 
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For c, I got a pretty long answer...
I'm doubting it's accuracy since I did my working out on a paper that was already full of working out.

I'm pretty this method is correct
let y=x^x^x
Let u=x^x
Take ln on both sides and use implicit differentiation. I doubt this is a mathematics level question
It's not that long.

Let










Let











yea...noone answered my questions too here

Make RHS into one fraction then simplify
Use the show part, integrate and use log laws to simplify the answer to
0.5ln[(e+1)^2/e^2+1]
That's not showing, that's telling.
 
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^ yep trial and error until it equals to 0 and use polynomials. Can't think of any easier way.
 

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