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Problem 6.620 · medium

Solve \( \displaystyle 5 y - 2 y' + y'' = 0 \) with \( \displaystyle y(0) = 4,\ y'(0) = 0 \).

\[ m^{2} - 2 m + 5 = \left(m - 1 - 2 i\right) \left(m - 1 + 2 i\right) \]
The characteristic equation has complex roots 1 ± 2i.✓ Proved
So y = C₁exp(x)*cos(2*x) + C₂exp(x)*sin(2*x); the two conditions fix C₁ and C₂.
Reviewed
\[ 5 \left(- 2 \sin{\left(2 x \right)} + 4 \cos{\left(2 x \right)}\right) e^{x} - 2 \frac{d}{d x} \left(- 2 \sin{\left(2 x \right)} + 4 \cos{\left(2 x \right)}\right) e^{x} + \frac{d^{2}}{d x^{2}} \left(- 2 \sin{\left(2 x \right)} + 4 \cos{\left(2 x \right)}\right) e^{x} = 0 \]
It satisfies the equation ...✓ Proved
\[ \left. 2 \left(- \sin{\left(2 x \right)} + 2 \cos{\left(2 x \right)}\right) e^{x} \right|_{\substack{ x=0 }} = 4 \]
... y(0) = 4 ...✓ Proved
\[ \left. \frac{d}{d x} 2 \left(- \sin{\left(2 x \right)} + 2 \cos{\left(2 x \right)}\right) e^{x} \right|_{\substack{ x=0 }} = 0 \]
y′(0) = 0.✓ Proved

Answer \( y = 2 \left(- \sin{\left(2 x \right)} + 2 \cos{\left(2 x \right)}\right) e^{x} \)

Lines: 4 proved, 1 reviewed. The answer was also checked a second way, without looking at the solution. The reviewers disagree about how one step is explained; every verdict is in the receipt. How we verify

The full receipt

Line	Status	Checked by	Detail
1	✓ Proved	sympy 1.14.0	simplify(lhs - rhs) reduced to 0
2	Reviewed	reviewers: gpt-oss:20b, qwen3.6:27b-mlx	a sentence; read, not computed
3	✓ Proved	sympy 1.14.0	simplify(lhs - rhs) reduced to 0
4	✓ Proved	sympy 1.14.0	simplify(lhs - rhs) reduced to 0
5	✓ Proved	sympy 1.14.0	simplify(lhs - rhs) reduced to 0
answer, a second way	✓ Checked independently	sympy 1.14.0 + mpmath 1.3.0	finite differences of the answer satisfy the equation, and the conditions hold in floating point

Reviewers

gpt-oss:20b: pass
qwen3.6:27b-mlx: pass

Every verdict on record (6)

qwen3.6:27b-mlx: pass 2026-10-18
gpt-oss:20b: pass 2026-10-18
qwen3.6:27b-mlx: fail (misleading) 2026-10-16 — The solution skips the derivation of the constants C1 and C2, jumping directly to the final answer. It then verifies the answer rather than solving for the constants, which fails to demonstrate the required method for finding the specific solution from initial conditions.
gpt-oss:20b: pass 2026-10-16
qwen3.6:27b-mlx: pass 2026-10-15 — The solution correctly identifies the general form of the solution for complex roots and verifies that the specific answer satisfies the differential equation and initial conditions.
gpt-oss:20b: pass 2026-10-15

Proved: SymPy reduced the difference between the two sides to zero. Checked independently: a separate method, named above, confirmed it. Checked numerically: the two sides agree at every sampled point, which is evidence, not proof. Reviewed: a model or a person read it; that is all a sentence can have. Solution by generator:structured/second_order_ivp_bvp, checked 2026-10-18 with SymPy 1.14.0.