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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 1 15 a ii Solution by
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For and , put . This is the standard substitution for a homogeneous first-order differential equation. Since , the equation becomesTaking antiderivatives yields . The explicit general solution is thereforeon any interval where and , with a fixed choice of sign. For a check that does not divide by , set to get and hence .
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