Problem of the Week

Updated at Sep 28, 2015 3:36 PM

For this week we've brought you this calculus problem.

How can we find the derivative of x+xx+\sqrt{x}?

Here are the steps:



ddxx+x\frac{d}{dx} x+\sqrt{x}

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Use Power Rule: ddxxn=nxn1\frac{d}{dx} {x}^{n}=n{x}^{n-1}.
1+12x1+\frac{1}{2\sqrt{x}}

Done