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How do you find derivatives of parametric functions?

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Sep 20, 2014

For the parametric equations

#{(x=x(t)),(y=y(t)):}#,

we can find the derivative

#{dy}/{dx}={{dy}/{dt}}/{{dx}/{dt}}={y'(t)}/{x'(t)}#.

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