How do you find the antiderivative of e^-5x using substitution?

1 Answer
Feb 3, 2015

I suspect that you want the antiderivative of e^(-5x)...
In fact the anti derivative of e^-5x is simply: e^-5x^2/2 (you don't need substitution...e^-5 is a constant).
However, if you want the antiderivative of e^(-5x) you have (if you really want to use substitution):
inte^(-5x)dx=
set -5x=t
x=-t/5
dx=-dt/5
So you get:
inte^t*-dt/5=-1/5e^t+c
and substituting back:
=-1/5e^(-5x)+c

Hope it helps