Problem of the Week

Updated at Sep 3, 2018 4:56 PM

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

How can we solve for the derivative of \({y}^{8}+{y}^{6}\)?

Here are the steps:



\[\frac{d}{dy} {y}^{8}+{y}^{6}\]

1
Use Power Rule: \(\frac{d}{dx} {x}^{n}=n{x}^{n-1}\).
\[8{y}^{7}+6{y}^{5}\]

Done