What is the derivative of $32/x$ ?

Question

2703 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2016-05-20T09:41:06

$-32/x^2$

Begin by expressing $32/x=32x^-1$

differentiate using the $color(blue)"power rule"$

$d/dx(ax^n)=nax^(n-1)$

$rArrd/dx(32x^-1)=-1xx32x^-2=-32/x^2$

What is the derivative of 32/x32/x?