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A collection of dimes and nickels has a value of 1.65. if there are 20 coins in all how many of the coins are dimes?

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Nostrana [21]3 years ago

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During the 2007 baseball season, Wade was up to bat 10 more times than

bearhunter [10]

Answer:

The number of times Ellis get to bat is 558.

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, let us assume the number of times Ellis bat = m

So, the number of times Dwight bat = 17 times fewer than Ellis

= m - 17

Also, number of times Wade got to bat = 10 more times than Dwight

= ( m- 17 )+ 10

Total number of bat times = 1650

So, the number of times ( Wade + Dwight + Ellis) bat together = 1650

⇒ ( m- 17 )+ 10 + (m - 17) + m = 1650

or, 3 m - 34 + 10 = 1650

or, 3 m = 1674

⇒ m = 1674/3 = 558 , or m = 558

Hence, the number of times Ellis get to bat = m = 558.

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Find a particular solution to <img src="https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%20x%5E%7B2%7D%20%20%5Cfrac%7B%20d%5E%7B2%7Dy%20%7D%7Bd%20x%5E%7

Digiron [165]

$y=x^r$
$\implies r(r-1)x^r+6rx^r+4x^r=0$
$\implies r^2+5r+4=(r+1)(r+4)=0$
$\implies r=-1,r=-4$

so the characteristic solution is

$y_c=\dfrac{C_1}x+\dfrac{C_2}{x^4}$

As a guess for the particular solution, let's back up a bit. The reason the choice of $y=x^r$ works for the characteristic solution is that, in the background, we're employing the substitution $t=\ln x$ , so that $y(x)$ is getting replaced with a new function $z(t)$ . Differentiating yields

$\dfrac{\mathrm dy}{\mathrm dx}=\dfrac1x\dfrac{\mathrm dz}{\mathrm dt}$
$\dfrac{\mathrm d^2y}{\mathrm dx^2}=\dfrac1{x^2}\left(\dfrac{\mathrm d^2z}{\mathrm dt^2}-\dfrac{\mathrm dz}{\mathrm dt}\right)$

Now the ODE in terms of $t$ is linear with constant coefficients, since the coefficients $x^2$ and $x$ will cancel, resulting in the ODE

$\dfrac{\mathrm d^2z}{\mathrm dt^2}+5\dfrac{\mathrm dz}{\mathrm dt}+4z=e^{2t}\sin e^t$

Of coursesin, the characteristic equation will be $r^2+6r+4=0$ , which leads to solutions $C_1e^{-t}+C_2e^{-4t}=C_1x^{-1}+C_2x^{-4}$ , as before.

Now that we have two linearly independent solutions, we can easily find more via variation of parameters. If $z_1,z_2$ are the solutions to the characteristic equation of the ODE in terms of $z$ , then we can find another of the form $z_p=u_1z_1+u_2z_2$ where

$u_1=-\displaystyle\int\frac{z_2e^{2t}\sin e^t}{W(z_1,z_2)}\,\mathrm dt$
$u_2=\displaystyle\int\frac{z_1e^{2t}\sin e^t}{W(z_1,z_2)}\,\mathrm dt$

where $W(z_1,z_2)$ is the Wronskian of the two characteristic solutions. We have

$u_1=-\displaystyle\int\frac{e^{-2t}\sin e^t}{-3e^{-5t}}\,\mathrm dt$
$u_1=\dfrac23(1-2e^{2t})\cos e^t+\dfrac23e^t\sin e^t$

$u_2=\displaystyle\int\frac{e^t\sin e^t}{-3e^{-5t}}\,\mathrm dt$
$u_2=\dfrac13(120-20e^{2t}+e^{4t})e^t\cos e^t-\dfrac13(120-60e^{2t}+5e^{4t})\sin e^t$

$\implies z_p=u_1z_1+u_2z_2$
$\implies z_p=(40e^{-4t}-6)e^{-t}\cos e^t-(1-20e^{-2t}+40e^{-4t})\sin e^t$

and recalling that $t=\ln x\iff e^t=x$ , we have

$\implies y_p=\left(\dfrac{40}{x^3}-\dfrac6x\right)\cos x-\left(1-\dfrac{20}{x^2}+\dfrac{40}{x^4}\right)\sin x$