Jimmykerrpaisley
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I am doing Khan Academy's calculus course. I am on derivatives and the quotient rule d/dx(f/g)
=(f'(x)*g(x)-f(x)*g'(x))÷g^2 ................................edited
I thought I was doing okay. The exercises seemed pretty simple, similar to the product rule except you subtract instead of All good..... so far. Now I get this.....
Ln(x)/sq.root(x) sorry can't find radical on keyboard
I simplified it down to this 1/sq.root (x) - ln(x)/2x(sq.root(x)
Khan Ac says that it can be simplified further into
2-ln(x)/2xsq.root(x). Eh???? Where did that top 2 come from.
I know I'm being thick. I'm doing something daft and either my algebra or arithmetic is failing. I'm really worried because I have already spent the past year going through Algebra 1 and 2. It was quite hard, especially logs and quotient stuff, although Trig just blew my mind, but never mind that. I am not mathematical naturally, please help this old man try and learn. Thank you so much.
=(f'(x)*g(x)-f(x)*g'(x))÷g^2 ................................edited
I thought I was doing okay. The exercises seemed pretty simple, similar to the product rule except you subtract instead of All good..... so far. Now I get this.....
Ln(x)/sq.root(x) sorry can't find radical on keyboard
I simplified it down to this 1/sq.root (x) - ln(x)/2x(sq.root(x)
Khan Ac says that it can be simplified further into
2-ln(x)/2xsq.root(x). Eh???? Where did that top 2 come from.
I know I'm being thick. I'm doing something daft and either my algebra or arithmetic is failing. I'm really worried because I have already spent the past year going through Algebra 1 and 2. It was quite hard, especially logs and quotient stuff, although Trig just blew my mind, but never mind that. I am not mathematical naturally, please help this old man try and learn. Thank you so much.
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