68.18.1 problem 7

Internal problem ID [17845]
Book : INTRODUCTORY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Martha L. Abell, James P. Braselton. Fourth edition 2014. ElScAe. 2014
Section : Chapter 4. Higher Order Equations. Chapter 4 review exercises, page 219
Problem number : 7
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 02:28:51 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }-7 y^{\prime }+10 y&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 17

ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-7*diff(y(x),x)+10*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \left (c_1 +c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{3 x}\right ) {\mathrm e}^{2 x} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.009 (sec). Leaf size: 22

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]-7*D[y[x],x]+10*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to e^{2 x} \left (c_2 e^{3 x}+c_1\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.088 (sec). Leaf size: 15

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(10*y(x) - 7*Derivative(y(x), x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \left (C_{1} + C_{2} e^{3 x}\right ) e^{2 x} \]