How do you implicitly differentiate 3x^2 - 2xy + y^2 = 11 3x22xy+y2=11?

1 Answer
Feb 14, 2016

dy/dx=(3x-y)/(x-y)dydx=3xyxy

Explanation:

Start by taking the derivative on both sides of the equation with respect to xx, bearing in mind that yy is a function of xx.
Then solve for dy/dxdydx.

therefore d/dx(3x^2-2xy+y^2)=d/dx11

therefore 6x-2xdy/dx-2y+2ydy/dx=0

thereforedy/dx=(6x-2y)/(2x-2y)

=(2(3x-y))/(2(x-y))