38.3.9 problem 17 (b)

Internal problem ID [8276]
Book : A First Course in Differential Equations with Modeling Applications by Dennis G. Zill. 12 ed. Metric version. 2024. Cengage learning.
Section : Chapter 1. Introduction to differential equations. Review problems at page 34
Problem number : 17 (b)
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 05:21:16 PM
CAS classification : [_separable]

\begin{align*} 3 x y^{\prime }-2 y&=0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 9
ode:=3*x*diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = c_1 \,x^{{2}/{3}} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 18
ode=3*x*D[y[x],x]-2*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to c_1 x^{2/3}\\ y(x)&\to 0 \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.062 (sec). Leaf size: 8
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(3*x*Derivative(y(x), x) - 2*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} x^{\frac {2}{3}} \]