Problem of the Week

Updated at Jul 6, 2015 11:43 AM

This week we have another calculus problem:

How would you differentiate 1x112\frac{1}{{x}^{\frac{11}{2}}}?

Let's start!



ddx1x112\frac{d}{dx} \frac{1}{{x}^{\frac{11}{2}}}

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Use Power Rule: ddxxn=nxn1\frac{d}{dx} {x}^{n}=n{x}^{n-1}.
112x132-\frac{11}{2{x}^{\frac{13}{2}}}

Done