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Use method of variation of parameters to solve
y'' + y = sin^2(x)
The given differential equation is

And the homogeneous part of the equation is given by

This is a 2nd order differential equation, so, it must have two
linearly independent solutions.
And the linearly independent solutions of the homogeneous part of
the equation are

And so, the Wronskian of these two Linearly independent solutions
is

So, we have
And if we choose the particular solution
then,

where,

So, putting the values, we get

So, the particular solution is

So, the general solution is

where, c1 and c2 are constants.