Problem of the Week

Updated at Jul 6, 2015 11:43 AM

This week we have another calculus problem:

How would you differentiate \(\frac{1}{{x}^{\frac{11}{2}}}\)?

Let's start!



\[\frac{d}{dx} \frac{1}{{x}^{\frac{11}{2}}}\]

1
Use Power Rule: \(\frac{d}{dx} {x}^{n}=n{x}^{n-1}\).
\[-\frac{11}{2{x}^{\frac{13}{2}}}\]

Done