What Did I Do Wrong When Solving For This 2nd Order Differential Equation? (answered myself)

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$$ \frac{y''}{y'}+y' = f(x) $$

I set the following to be true:

$$ y = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n x^n $$

$$ f(x) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} b_nx^n $$

Therefore:

$$ y'' = y'(f(x)-y') $$

$$ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (n+1)(n+2)a_{n+2} x^n = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} [(n+1)a_{n+1} x^n] \times \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} [(b_n - (n+1)a_{n+1})x^n] $$

$$ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (n+1)(n+2)a_{n+2} x^n = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} [(b_n - (n+1)a_{n+1})x^n \sum_{k=0}^n (k+1)a_{k+1}] $$ Therefore $$ (n+1)(n+2)a_{n+2} = (b_n - (n+1)a_{n+1}) \sum_{k=0}^n (k+1)a_{k+1} $$

$$ b_n = \frac{(n+2)(n+1)a_{n+2}}{\sum_{k=1}^{n+1} ka_k} + (n+1)a_{n+1} $$

$$ y = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (\frac{(n+2)(n+1)a_{n+2}}{\sum_{k=1}^{n+1} ka_{k}} + (n+1)a_{n+1})x^n $$

Now if i set $a_n = 1$

$$ y = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (n+1)x^n + \sum_{n=0}^\infty (\frac{(n+2)(n+1)}{\sum_{k=1}^{n+1} k}x^n $$

$$ \sum_{k=1}^{n+1} k = \frac{(n+1)(n+2)}{2} $$

$$ y = \frac{1}{(x-1)^2} + \sum_{n=0}^\infty 2x^n $$

$$ \sum_{n=0}^\infty 2x^n = \frac{2}{1-x} $$

Therefore

$$ f(x) = \frac{2x-1}{(x-1)^2} $$

$$ y = \frac{1}{1-x} $$

Therefore

$$ \frac{-2(1-x)^2}{(1-x)^3}+\frac{1}{(1-x)^2} = \frac{2x-1}{(1-x)^2} $$

Which is true.

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Your problem is that you took the terms involving $b_n$ out of the summation. Here is my take.

I'll start at $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (n+1)(n+2)a_{n+2} x^n = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} [(n+1)a_{n+1} x^n] \times \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} [(b_n - (n+1)a_{n+1})x^n]$ but use different indices for the summations on the right.

$\begin{array}\\ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (n+1)(n+2)a_{n+2} x^n &= \sum_{i=0}^{\infty} (i+1)a_{i+1} x^i \times \sum_{j=0}^{\infty} (b_j - (j+1)a_{j+1})x^j\\ &= \sum_{i=0}^{\infty}\sum_{j=0}^{\infty} (i+1)a_{i+1} (b_j - (j+1)a_{j+1})x^{i+j}\\ &= \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\sum_{j=0}^{n} (n-j+1)a_{n-j+1} (b_j - (j+1)a_{j+1})x^{n}\\ &= \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}x^{n}\sum_{j=0}^{n} (n-j+1)a_{n-j+1} (b_j - (j+1)a_{j+1})\\ \end{array} $

From this,

$\begin{array}\ (n+1)(n+2)a_{n+2} &=\sum_{j=0}^{n} (n-j+1)a_{n-j+1} (b_j - (j+1)a_{j+1})\\ &=\sum_{j=1}^{n+1} ja_{j} (b_{n-j+1} - (n-j+2)a_{n-j+2})\\ \end{array} $

I'll leave it at this.