Good morning/ evening. Dad here, helping daughter navigate higher level leaving cert maths book riddled with mistakes.
I am completely lost with this exercise.
It goes as follows:
The tangent drawn to a curve with equation y=3/x at the point (2, 3/2) meets the x axis at A and the y axis at B.
What is the area of the triangle AOB where O is the origin?
I differentiated to -3/xtothepower2 but i dont know what to make of it, nor do i know what to make of the coordinate given, as there are no cutting points nor a straight line i can compute. Please help.
I am completely lost with this exercise.
It goes as follows:
The tangent drawn to a curve with equation y=3/x at the point (2, 3/2) meets the x axis at A and the y axis at B.
What is the area of the triangle AOB where O is the origin?
I differentiated to -3/xtothepower2 but i dont know what to make of it, nor do i know what to make of the coordinate given, as there are no cutting points nor a straight line i can compute. Please help.