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OpenStudy (marcelie):

help please # 72

OpenStudy (marcelie):

OpenStudy (marcelie):

@mathmale

OpenStudy (bobo-i-bo):

Do you know how to do implicit differentiation? And do you know your laws of logarithms?

OpenStudy (marcelie):

yes

OpenStudy (marcelie):

i struggle logs though

OpenStudy (bobo-i-bo):

So the laws of logarithms are: \[1. log(b^c)=clog(b) \] \[2. log(bc)=log(b)+log(c)\]

OpenStudy (bobo-i-bo):

Okay, so when it asks for you to do logarithmic differentiation, it is essentially asking you to take log of both sides, and then implicitly differentiate what you get.

OpenStudy (bobo-i-bo):

So do you know how to start?

OpenStudy (marcelie):

no :/

OpenStudy (bobo-i-bo):

Lol, log both sides. For example, if y=x^4, then to log both sides means: log(y)=log(x^4)

OpenStudy (marcelie):

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