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Consider the ODE y' = y2/x subject to the boundary condition y(1)=1. Find an implicit solution of the form H(x,y) = constant, then find an explicit solution of the form y=y(x). What is the largest x-interval on which the solution is defined?

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Hi There,

Here is the solution.
The first part is finding an integration factor for a non-exact equation.
The full process is described in:
http://sosmath.com/diffeq/first/exact/exact.html
http://sosmath.com/diffeq/first/intfactor/intfactor.html

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