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Though you are required to understand differentiating from first principles for the exam, questions such as this become quite straightforward once you know the trick.
To differentiate all you have to...

From this we can see that equation has 2 parts therefore we should look to using the product rule which is used to differiantiate a two functions multiplied together so (fg)'=f'g+fg'. In this question the...

Firstly, recall the definition of a logarithm: if y = log_a(x), then this means that y is the power you have to raise a to, to get x, that is a^y = x.Now, we want to introduce a new ba...

Let P(n) represent the statement that 'f(n) is divisible by 19'. For the basis step, I prove that P(1) is true: f(1) = 3^3(1)-2+ 2³⁽¹⁾⁺¹ = 19. 19 is divisible by 19 so P(1) is true. I...

Stationary points of an equation are found where the gradient of the tangent at this point equals zero. A diagram can illustrate this. To find them differentiate the given equation (which gives the gradie...