Evaluate the following integral.

{eq}\displaystyle \int \dfrac {x^3 + 10 x^2 + 3 x + 36} {(x - 1) (x^2 + 4)^2}\ dx {/eq}

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Evaluate the following integral.

{eq}\displaystyle \int \dfrac {x^3 + 10 x^2 + 3 x + 36} {(x - 1) (x^2 + 4)^2}\ dx {/eq}

Simple Fractions Method:

In the simple fraction method for decomposing a rational fraction, the most complicated case is when the complex roots are multiple. For example if we have the fraction:

$$\dfrac{q(x)}{(x^2+a^2)^2} $$

The decomposition of the rational fraction is as follows:

$$\begin{align} \dfrac{q(x)}{(x^2+a^2)^2}&= \frac{ax+b}{x^2+a^2}+\frac{cx+d}{(x^2+a^2)^2}\\[0.3cm] \end{align} $$


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Given:

$$\int \ \frac{x^3+10x^2+3x+36}{(x-1)(x^2+4)^2}\ dx $$


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