A few days ago
Anonymous

need help finding the derivitive of this equation?

the equation is (x-1)(x^2+x+1)/x^3

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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Let y = (x-1)(x^2+x+1)/x^3.

Then:

y = (x – 1)(x^(-1) + x^(-2) + x^(-3))

= 1 – x^(-1) + x^(-1) – x^(-2) + x^(-2) – x^(-3)

= 1 – x^(-3).

dy/dx = 3x^(-4)

= 3 / x^4.

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