Problem of the Week

Updated at Feb 6, 2017 3:51 PM

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

How can we find the derivative of \(\frac{1}{{x}^{\frac{11}{2}}}\)?

Here are the steps:



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

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

Done