Problem of the Week

Updated at Sep 28, 2015 3:36 PM

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

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

Here are the steps:



\[\frac{d}{dx} x+\sqrt{x}\]

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

Done