Problem of the Week

Updated at Oct 3, 2016 9:11 AM

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

How can we solve for the derivative of \(\frac{1}{{x}^{2}}\)?

Here are the steps:



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

1
Use Power Rule: \(\frac{d}{dx} {x}^{n}=n{x}^{n-1}\).
\[-\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\]

Done
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