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Re: How to solve this type of equation in Mathematica?

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• Subject: [mg59918] Re: [mg59887] How to solve this type of equation in Mathematica?
• From: "benshimo at bgumail.bgu.ac.il" <bsyehuda at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:34:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
Is f(x) a distribution (a probability density function, actually)? Is the
value of P known?
yehuda

On 8/24/05, poster at giganews.com <poster at giganews.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, I would like to be able to solve the equation:
>
> Equal[Integrate[Times[Plus[P, x], f[x]], List[x, P,
> DirectedInfinity[1]]], 1]
>
> in Mathematica. Is there any way to do this?
>
> That is I would like to solve for f(x) when we know that
> integrating (x + P) f(x) from P to Infinity over x equals 1.
>
>

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  • How to solve this type of equation in Mathematica?
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