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What is the derivative of $sqrtcos x$ ?

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Apr 12, 2015

I would use the Chain Rule to derive $sqrt()$ first and then $cos$ :
$y'=1/(2sqrt(cos(x)))*(-sin(x))=-sin(x)/(2sqrt(cos(x))$

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