Where am I messing up? Use logarithmic differentiation to find the derivative of the function. y= sqrt(x)^7/x ------------------- I will post my work below.
\[ y= \sqrt{x^7}/x=x^{7/2}/x=x^{5/2}\]if your formula is written correctly you can first simplify it this way. Is this written correctly?
\[lny=lnx^{7x/2}\] \[u=7x/2\] \[lny=ulnx\] \[(1/y) (dy/dx) = (7x/2)(1/x)+(lnx)(7/2)\] \[(dy/dx) = [(7x/2)(1/x)+(lnx)(7/2)] [(\sqrt{x})^{7x}]\]
so x is in the exponent too?
Oops, the question is actually, i wrote it wrong. \[(\sqrt{x})^{7x}\]
I'm being told that my final answer is wrong. Yet i can't figure out where I am messing up.
\[y=\sqrt{x}^{7x}\] right? let me try it for a minute...
Yes Turing, that's right. By the way, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me.
I got the same as you but noticed that in the last line the (7x/2)(1/x) cancels to 7/2 so \[y'=(7/2)(1+\ln x)\sqrt{x}^{7x}\]I hope that works...
Boom, that was the problem. Thanks, you're awesome!
Sweet, but you did it pretty much yourself. I just saw a detail, that's why two heads are better than one :)
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