Are you sure this is suposed to be in the 4 unit forum?Kobe!!! said:Can someone please help me differentiating this?
3x + x = ?
doing my head in!
cheers!
Differentiation by first principles/definition of differential calculus.3unitz said:f(x) = 3x + x
f(x + h) = 3(x + h) + (x + h)
f'(x) = lim h->0 [f(x+h) - f(x)] / h
= lim h->0 [3(x + h) + (x + h) - 3x - x]/ h
= lim h->0 4h/ h
= lim h->0 4
= 4
doink said:dy/dx (3x + x)
=dy/dx(3x) + dy/dx(x)
= 3 + 1
= 17
DUHH
don't know where all these idiots got 4 from, blatantly incorrect.