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Posted by none on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:26am.

How would I find the deriviative of:
(x^3/3) + (x^2/2) +x

math - MathMate, Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 2:50pm
The derivative of xⁿ can be found using the power rule:
dxⁿ/dx = nx^n-1
The derivative of a polynomial is the sum of the derivative of each of the terms.
For example,
d(x⁵+x⁴)/dx = 5x⁴+4x³

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