Can someone tell if this is right?

View attachment 3520is this just webassign being webassign?
As romesk said

\(\displaystyle g(u) = \sqrt{7}u + \sqrt{10u} = \sqrt{7}u + \sqrt{10}u^{(1/2)} \implies g'(u) = \sqrt{7} + \sqrt{10} * \dfrac{1}{2} * u^{-(1/2)} = \sqrt{7} + \dfrac{\sqrt{10}}{2\sqrt{u}}.\)

However,

\(\displaystyle g(u) = \sqrt{7u} + \sqrt{10u} = \sqrt{7}\sqrt{u} + \sqrt{10}\sqrt{u} =u^{(1/2)}\left(\sqrt{7} + \sqrt{10}\right) \implies g'(u) = \dfrac{1}{2} * u^{-(1/2)} * \left(\sqrt{7} + \sqrt{10}\right) = \dfrac{\sqrt{7} + \sqrt{10}}{2\sqrt{u}}.\)

What was the problem? What did you put into the software?
 
In the first term, the vinculum extends over the 7 only. Thus the given expression becomes, 71/2 u + 101/2u1/2, making the derivative of the first term 71/2.

Rich
 
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