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OpenStudy (anonymous):

find derivative by limit process

OpenStudy (anonymous):

f(x)=3

OpenStudy (psymon):

Thats it?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yes and I know for the power rule it would be zero since it is the derivative of a constant but I dont know how to do that with the limit process

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Im sorry but I have to go so if you could just type what you think I would do I'll look at it later

OpenStudy (psymon):

Im not sure if theres anything you can do with it using the limit definition. In that definition, "h" represents a step size, an increase in x-values. So the idea behind it is as i decrease the distance from x and some point x+h, what does my slope approach. So for something thats like f(x) = 3, you would always have (3-3)/h. Well, if h represents a step size, then theres not much to be shown. As my step sizes get smaller, 3-3 is always 0. If they got bigger for whatever reason, I still will always have 3-3 = 0. So other than understandign the definition, im not surw what there is that could be actually shown.

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