Problem of the Week

Updated at Jan 9, 2017 10:16 AM

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

How would you differentiate x+x7x+{x}^{7}?

Here are the steps:



ddxx+x7\frac{d}{dx} x+{x}^{7}

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Use Power Rule: ddxxn=nxn1\frac{d}{dx} {x}^{n}=n{x}^{n-1}.
1+7x61+7{x}^{6}

Done