How do you find the derivative of $1000/x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-09T05:05:48

Let $y=1000/x$ or $y=1000x^(-1)$ , then by the power rule for

derivatives we get

$y'=(-1000)/(x^2)$

The power rule for derivatives states that $d/dx[u^(n)]=n*u^(n-1)$ .

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