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Lets campaign the teachers to give mrbunton the mark!
 

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In the case of a misprinted question, I think the best thing to do here would just be to give everyone the marks.
 

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Surely it's been written wrong? Only way I can think of using Taylor, but that is outside 4U scope.
Try replacing both e^x with e^(x^2).
 

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Re: HSC 2018 MX2 Integration Marathon

The above question is literally impossible, in the sense there is no elementary closed form in terms of a finite combination of elementary operations and HSC-level constants.
 

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Show that


 
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Using the identities:





the integral reduces to:





Perform a substitution to get



The substitution would probably have given a quicker answer, but the first thing that came to mind was another trig sub:



Giving:



Noting that for all real and so for the bounds of this integral, we may simplify to get





Note: and can be evaluated by using an appropriate right angled triangle.





Expanding the square and rationalising the denominator gives

 
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Continuing on from the simplification



Reverse the chain rule twice to obtain:



Complete the substitution to obtain:



Using the former table of standard integrals, the integral evaluates to:



Which "simplifies" to:

 
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Maybe something a bit easier:

 

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Damn that pi lemme sit on it a n=bit longer
 

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I put my solution as an attachment so that it won't spoil the answer for other people attempting to solve this.
 

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If you don't mind me asking, where do you get these integrals from?
Construct from simpler integrals using trig identities and properties of definite integrals.
 

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Continue to have fun with trig.:jump:

Harder version:

Find the area between x-axis and y=f(x) on its maximal domain.

Simpler version:
Show that
 
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Continue to have fun with trig.:jump:

Harder version:

Find the area between x-axis and y=f(x) on its maximal domain.

Simpler version:
Show that
a very nice integral.
 

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This one should be considerably easier than the previous one.:tongue:



The answer is pretty small. (1/32304)
 
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I've reduced the integral to



if someone else wants to finish it from this, but it seems very difficult.

Maybe a different approach might be necessary?
 
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