2.12 problem 12

Internal problem ID [4961]

Book: Fundamentals of Differential Equations. By Nagle, Saff and Snider. 9th edition. Boston. Pearson 2018.
Section: Chapter 2, First order differential equations. Section 2.3, Linear equations. Exercises. page 54
Problem number: 12.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_linear, `class A`]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime }+4 y=x^{2} {\mathrm e}^{-4 x}} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 16

dsolve(diff(y(x),x)=x^2*exp(-4*x)-4*y(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (\frac {x^{3}}{3}+c_{1} \right ) {\mathrm e}^{-4 x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.058 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[y'[x]==x^2*Exp[-4*x]-4*y[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{3} e^{-4 x} \left (x^3+3 c_1\right ) \]