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Let us consider the system of linear ordinary differential equations \({d\over dx}z(x)=A(x)z(x)+f(x), x\in[0,b]\) with boundary value conditions at \(x=0\) and \(x=b\). Here \(A(x)\) is a matrix with continuous entries \(a_{ij}(x), i,j=1,\dots, n\). This boundary-value problem is reduced to \(n+1\) Cauchy problems \[ \begin{aligned} {d\over dx}z^{(0)}(x) &= A(x)z^{(0)}(x)+f(x), \quad z^{(0)}_{i}(0)=0, \quad i=1,\dots, n;\\ {d\over dx}z^{(k)}(x) &= A(x)z^{(k)}(x), \quad z^{(k)}_{i}(0)=\begin{cases} 1,&i=k,\\0,&i\neq k,\end{cases} \quad i,k=1,\dots, n. \end{aligned} \] A solution of the given boundary value problem is sought in the form \(z(x)=z^{(0)}(x)+\sum\limits_{k=1}^{n}C_{k}z^{(k)}(x)\), and the constants \(C_{k}\) are determined by the boundary value conditions.