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This blog accompanies the College Mathline television program produced by Palomar College

Here you can post a question for us or a comment about the show. You can also find information on our "real world" applications of mathematics.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Math Questions Spring 2009

You can leave math questions for us here, as comments to this post, and we will solve them on the broadcast each Wednesday. 

If you aren't able to see the program live, record it for viewing later or you can watch it online when it is archived at www.collegemathline.com.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have an calculus question. I'm supposed to integrate this:

arctan(sqrt(x))

We just learned trig substitution but the substitutions I'm doing just make the problem worse. Please help!

Anonymous said...

Im in algebra and I need help solving a problem. I have to solve this equation by finding the zeros.

x^3 - 19x - 30


thanks!

College Mathline said...

We did both of the above questions on the broadcast today.

For the calculus question, our tutor Derek found another way to do it which you may or may not prefer! He substituted x=tan^2(theta) so that tan^-1(sqrt(x)) becomes just theta, and dx becomes 2*tan(theta)*sec^2(theta) d theta. You still have to integrate by parts though!

Anonymous said...

I have a system of linear equations that I can't solve. I'm a Palomar student. Can you help me? Thank you!

(3/4)x - (1/3)y + (1/2)z = 9
(1/6)x + (1/3)y - (1/2)z = 2
(1/2)x - y + (1/2)z = 2

College Mathline said...

Stephanie, we will do this one on tomorrow's program. If you aren't able to catch that, email us at mathline@palomar.edu and we'll send some email help.

College Mathline said...

Stephanie again: we did the problem on the show but it didn't end up correct because one equation was miscopied at one point! Let us know if you need additional help on it.

Anonymous said...

I'm in algebra and I have to somplify this problem:
log(2x+3)+log(4x-6)
I factored the log out of both terms and got log(6x-3) but the book has a different answer. please help!