Return to Assignments Product and Quotient rule
Assignment 13
Differentiate:
Solution
We can differentiate this function in two different ways. We can either use the quotient rule or the product rule.
If we would use the quotient rule we take:
and:
Because:
and:
we can write, using the quotient rule:
We can also use the product rule, but then we have to rewrite the function as follows:
and apply the product rule:
Sometimes it is profitable to write the quotient as a product, in other cases it is better to apply the quotient rule. It depends on the expected amount of work.
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