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OpenStudy (dylangr1997):

Who knows anything about implicit differentiation?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

what you need?

OpenStudy (dylangr1997):

\[\frac{ dy}{dx } x ^{2}y+xy^2 \]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

product rule and chain rule, but there is something missing here

OpenStudy (anonymous):

maybe it is \[x ^{2}y+xy^2=5\] or some such thing

OpenStudy (dylangr1997):

it is =2

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok lets imagine \(y=\sin(x)\) (which it is not, just pretend) then how would you take the derivative of \[x^2\sin(x)+x\sin^2(x)\]?

OpenStudy (nincompoop):

omg it disappeared

OpenStudy (nincompoop):

it is almost the same as explicit differentiation, except that you will need to multiply either the x or y with x' or y' respectively since we do not know what they, which means we are solving implicitly

OpenStudy (dylangr1997):

thanks

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