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    This document provides examples and explanations of differentiation rules including the power rule, product rule, quotient rule, and chain rule. It also provides practice problems for students to differentiate various functions using these rules. The key information is how to apply the basic differentiation rules to take the derivative of different types of functions including quotients, products, and composite functions. Students are asked to find the derivative of several functions as practice problems to solidify their understanding of applying these differentiation rules.

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    u  vu uv 


      
    7.4 Quotient Rule: v  v2

    Basic Differentiation rules:


    Power rule: (x n ) nx n1
    Product rule:
    
    (uv) uv uv
    u  vu uv 
    
    Quotient rule:   
    v  v2
    
    dy dy du
    Chain rule:  f (g(x))  f (g(x))  g (x) or in other words  
    dx du dx
    

    Example  1
    
    x
    y x 2
    x 2 y  1  1 2(x  2)1
    x 2 x 2
    (x  2)x  (x  2)x
    y  or y  0  2(1)(x  2)2
    (x  2)2
     2(x  2)2
    (x  2)1 (1)x 2
     
    (x  2) 2
    (x  2)2

    
    Example 2
    x2 1
    y
    x 2 1 x2 1 2
    y  1 2  1 2(x 2 1)1
    (x 2 1)(x 2  1) (x 2 1)(x 2  1) x 1
    2
    x 1
    y 
    (x 2 1) 2 y  0  2(1)(x 2 1)2 (x 2 1) chain rule
    or
    (x 2 1)2x  2x(x 2  1)  2(x 2 1)2 2x

    (x 2 1) 2 4 x
     2
    4 x (x 1) 2
     2
    (x 1) 2

    
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    Example 3

    If the function to be differentiated is a quotient with a constant for its numerator, think of using the Chain
    Rule rather than using the Quotient Rule.

    , then

    Example 4
    x2  7
    Find the derivative of y  with respect to x.
    2x  4
    Solution:
    x2  7 x2  7
    y 
    2 x  4 2( x  2)
    dy 1 d  x 2  7 
      
    dx 2 dx  x  2 
    d d
    ( x  2) ( x 2  7)  ( x 2  7) ( x  2)
    1 dx dx

    2 ( x  2) 2
    1 ( x  2)(2 x)  ( x 2  7)(1)

    2 ( x  2) 2
    1 2x2  4x  x2  7

    2 ( x  2) 2
    x2  4x  7

    2( x  2) 2
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    Your Turn!
    QI. Find the derivative of each function defined as follows; there is no need to simplify
    your answers.
    3x  2
    (a) h( x ) 
    x2 1
    sin x
    (b) f ( x) 
    x
    sec x
    (c) y
    1  tan x
    Q2 Differentiate the following functions
    (hint: in questions 7 & 8 you need to use product as well as quotient formulas)
    sin x
    x 2.   sin 
    1. 1  cos x 3.
    1 x 1  cos 
    1
    r 3  4r 5. x
    4. s2  4 6.
    r  1r  2  sin
    x 1
    sin x cos x 8.  sin y 
    7. 1  sin 9. tan y   
    1  cos x  cos y 

    ( x 2  1)(3)  (3x  2)(2 x) x(cos x)  (sin x)(1)


    A1 (a) h( x)  (b) f ( x) 
    ( x 2  1) 2 x2
    dy (1  tan x)(sec x tan x)  sec x(sec 2 x)
    (c) 
    dx (1  tan x) 2
    A2
    1 1   sin  r 4  2r 3  10r 2  8
    1. 2. 3. 4.
    1  x 2 1  cos x 1  cos  2 r  12 r  22
     2s 1 x  1  2 cos 2 x  cos 3 x cos 2 x  cos x  1
    5. 
    s 
    6. 7.
    2 x x  12 1  cos x 2
    2
    2
    4 1  cos x
     cos   sin  sin 2  9.
    1
     sec 2 y
    8.
    1  sin 2 cos y2

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