Solving Differential Equations with Mathematica's Solver

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If you solved this problem correctly, your session with Mathematica should have gone something like this:

DSolve[(2x y[x]+3)+(x^2 -1) y'[x]==0, y[x], x]

If you didn't get the above solution to the differential equation, you might want to go back to Mathematica and check your work. (Or you could simply claim that you are correct, and that my solution is wrong!) A common mistake is to forget to put either a [SPACE] or a * between the x and the y in the command. (If you don't do this, Mathematica thinks that you have a single variable here called xy.)

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