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Differentiate y = x^3 +x^2 - 4x +5 with respects to x.

When differentiating, you want to use the formula ax^n differentiates to (a n)x^(n-1), so for the example above, x^3 where a is 1, and n is 3, the differentiation is (1 3)x^(3-1) which results to 3x^2. This ...
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Solve the differential equation: e^(2y) * (dy/dx) + tan(x) = 0, given that y = 0 when x = 0. Give your answer in the form y = f(x).

This is a question taken from a core 4 paper and is a typical example of a differential equation question. The first thing to notice about this equation is that it is "separable", meaning we can re...
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Differentiate The Following function

Find dy/dx where y = (x 2 +7) 1/2 => 1/2(x 2 +7) -1/2 * d/dx(x 2 +7) By the chain rule => 1/2(x 2 +7) -1/2 * 2x => x(x 2 +7) -1/2 Remember that x 1/2 = sqrt(x) and x -1 = 1/x => x/sqrt(x 2 +7)
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What is the gradient of the function f(x) = 2x^2 + 3x - 7 at the point where x = -2?

To work out the gradient of a function f(x), we need to differentiate it with respect to x, to give us f'(x). If x = a at a point, then the gradient of f(x) at that point is f'(a) (substitute a in place of x...
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If n is an integer such that n>1 and f(x)=(sin(n*x))^n, what is f'(x)?

Let us denote sin(nx) = u(x), where u is a function of x. The equation is now therefore f(x) =(u(x))^n. For simplicity, we will write that as f(x) = u^n By the chain rule, we know that f'(x) = df/dx = (df/du...
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