Answer:
x = 4 or x = 1 or x = -2 or x = -3/2
Step-by-step explanation:
Solve for x over the real numbers:
2 x^4 - 3 x^3 - 21 x^2 - 2 x + 24 = 0
The left hand side factors into a product with four terms:
(x - 4) (x - 1) (x + 2) (2 x + 3) = 0
Split into four equations:
x - 4 = 0 or x - 1 = 0 or x + 2 = 0 or 2 x + 3 = 0
Add 4 to both sides:
x = 4 or x - 1 = 0 or x + 2 = 0 or 2 x + 3 = 0
Add 1 to both sides:
x = 4 or x = 1 or x + 2 = 0 or 2 x + 3 = 0
Subtract 2 from both sides:
x = 4 or x = 1 or x = -2 or 2 x + 3 = 0
Subtract 3 from both sides:
x = 4 or x = 1 or x = -2 or 2 x = -3
Divide both sides by 2:
Answer: x = 4 or x = 1 or x = -2 or x = -3/2
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If Claudia jumped 10,000 ft. to sea level, then the answer would be -10,000. The reason is if she is going down then it would be negative.
I don't know what method is referred to in "section 4.3", but I'll suppose it's reduction of order and use that to find the exact solution. Take

, so that

and we're left with the ODE linear in

:

Now suppose

has a power series expansion



Then the ODE can be written as


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All the coefficients of the series vanish, and setting

in the power series forms for

and

tell us that

and

, so we get the recurrence

We can solve explicitly for

quite easily:

and so on. Continuing in this way we end up with

so that the solution to the ODE is

We also require the solution to satisfy

, which we can do easily by adding and subtracting a constant as needed:
I believe it is 17.0, I hope this helps some