Problem of the Week

Updated at Jun 22, 2015 8:36 AM

For this week we've brought you this calculus problem.

How can we find the derivative of \(x+{x}^{8}\)?

Here are the steps:



\[\frac{d}{dx} x+{x}^{8}\]

1
Use Power Rule: \(\frac{d}{dx} {x}^{n}=n{x}^{n-1}\).
\[1+8{x}^{7}\]

Done