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OpenStudy (crashonce):

easy differentiation help

OpenStudy (crashonce):

differentiate \[2\sqrt{1-x}\]

OpenStudy (michele_laino):

we can write your function as below: \[\Large f\left( x \right) = 2{\left( {1 - x} \right)^{1/2}}\] now, in order to compute the first derivavtive, we have to apply the chain rule

OpenStudy (michele_laino):

derivative*

OpenStudy (michele_laino):

for example, I set y=1-x so the first derivative of your function will be this: \[\Large f'\left( x \right) = \frac{{df}}{{dy}} \times \frac{{dy}}{{dx}},\quad f\left( x \right) = 2{\left( y \right)^{1/2}},\;y = 1 - x\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

\[\frac{ (2)(-1) }{ 2(\sqrt{(1-x)} }\] \[= \frac{ (-1) }{ (\sqrt{(1-x)} }\]

OpenStudy (michele_laino):

that's right!

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