Tangent line of a implicit differential equation problem. Question and my wrong answer is in the attached picture
@mathmate
How did you do the implicit differentiation? I got a different slope.
hint: from \(x^2+y^2=(3x^2+4y^2-x)^2\)...............(1) we differentiate with respect to x: \(2x+2yy'=(6x+8yy'-1)^2\)......................(2) You would substitute (0,1/4) into .....(2) and solve for y' = slope, and hence find the tangent line passing through (0,1/4).
@mathmate are you ignoring the chain rule part of the ( )^2 thing?
\[2x+2yy'=2(3x^2+4y^2-x) \cdot (6x+8yy'-1)\]
My bad, forget there was a square to be taken care of! Thank you!
Did you guys get a slope of 1?
btw sorry for replying late, my internet died last night
Thank you guys for all your help
I'm getting that same number.
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