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non-constant coefficient so we take the original equation and divide by the term in front of the y’’ to get it by itself In this case we divide by x² to get y’’ — 3y’/x + 4/x²y = 0 The coefficient of y’ is P(x) The coefficient of y is Q(x) Now at this point we need to use the reduction of order