 Solution

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Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25

The transformed inhomogeneous equation is

z'' + z = x^{2}

. Taking

z = x^{2} - 2

gives the particular integral

y_{p} = 1 - 2/ x^{2}

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