[Math] Find an appropriate trigonometric substitution of the form $x=f(t)$ to simplify the integral $ \int x\sqrt{7x^2+42x+59}\,\mathrm dx $

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Find an appropriate trigonometric substitution of the form $x=f(t)$ to simplify the integral $$ \int x\sqrt{7x^2+42x+59}\,\mathrm dx .$$

There were never any examples quite like this in class, so I'm clueless as to how to figure out which trig function to use.

Best Answer

Try completing the square to get

\begin{equation*} \int x\sqrt{(\sqrt{7}x+3\sqrt{7})^2-4)}\,\mathrm dx \end{equation*}

& use the substitution $u=\sqrt{7}x+3\sqrt{7},~du=\sqrt{7}dx.$

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