How do you find the derivative of #y= (1/3)x^3 - 5x - 4/x#?
1 Answer
Apr 10, 2015
If you really want to do this using first principles (the definition), I'll go through it, but You'll need to ask for that specifically, because it's a lot of typing for me.
Using the power rule and the other properties of derivatives, we do the following:
That's all the calculus. If desired, we could do the algebra to get a common denominator: