I am needing a little help with a few of these math problems. Find the difference quotient to this problem: 1 __ 2x Please let me know. Thanks!
this isn't a complete problem or did you mean differential coefficient instead of difference quotient?
Hi, I think this is not a complete question and you should write here the complete question. Please let us understand clearly. Stella
I think you mean, what is the equation? Try equating it with 1 OR 0. You get answers as 1/2 and incase of 0, x gets eliminated.
in case of 0, it doesn't get eliminated, the answer comes out to be ∞ if x=0 but they're not the solutions, the question provides insufficient information for us to be able to solve it Lets just wait for the OP to come online shall we?
Korrupt I hate to tell you but your wrong, if x=0 mathematically it is undefined. Anything divided by 0 is undefined. Unless this is a calculus problem where you could argue that the limit of the function will go to infinity. But its not calculus so its just junk anyway.
I looked at your previous posts, I think you want the derivative of 1/2x using the quotient rule right? Use it as a product rule instead of (1/2)*x^-1 The 1/2 stays constant, you pull the -1 in front and subtract 1 from the exponent. You get -1/2x^-2 or -1/2x^2. By quotient rule it would be Lower Function (2x) X Derivative High (0) - Higher (1) X Lower (2) / lower squared (4x^2) Same answer.
this is really confusing...what exactlyy is the question everyone is givin their own solutions acoording to their interpretation of the question..lol
Let's see now....mmmmm.......so: if we set 1 | x2 u = ex + e-x then we find du = (ex - e-x) dx substitute du= (ex - e-x) dx, u = ex + e-x solve = ln |u| + C substitute back u = ex + e-x = ln |ex + e-x| + C since ex and e-x are always positive = ln (ex + e-x) + C since (ex + e-x)/2 = cosh(x) = ln (2 cosh x) + C = ln 2 + ln (cosh x) + C ln 2 is merely a constant that can be combined with C = ln (cosh x) + 2 Your answer = +2 .jik
what we did was anything /0 is infinity, and 0/0 is undefined since it can have 3 answers: 1. 0/0=1, since anything divided by itself gives 1 2. 0/0=0, as 0 divided by anything =0 3. 0/0=infinity, as anything divided by 0 gives infinity We are in the general section