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I completed the square in the denominator and used the substitution [imath]\tan\theta =x+\frac{3}{2}[/imath]. This gave me

 

[math]\int \frac{x}{4x^2+12x+13}dx=-\frac{1}{4}\ln\left(\frac{2}{\sqrt{4x^2+12x+13}}\right)-\frac{3}{8}\tan^{-1}\left(x+\frac{3}{2}\right)+c[/math]

 

[math]=\frac{1}{4}\ln\left(\frac{\sqrt{4x^2+12x+13}}{2}\right)-\frac{3}{8}\tan^{-1}\left(x+\frac{3}{2}\right)+c[/math]

 

I differentiated this, and it gave me the correct original integrand. Maybe mathematica removed the power of a half or something from the log.

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