Problem of the Week

Updated at Jan 11, 2016 2:43 PM

This week we have another calculus problem:

How would you differentiate \(\frac{1}{{x}^{\frac{7}{2}}}\)?

Let's start!



\[\frac{d}{dx} \frac{1}{{x}^{\frac{7}{2}}}\]

1
Use Power Rule: \(\frac{d}{dx} {x}^{n}=n{x}^{n-1}\).
\[-\frac{7}{2{x}^{\frac{9}{2}}}\]

Done