I am doing practice problems out of a book to prepare for the AP Calculus 1 Test. For the problem above I got:
y' = (x+1)/[sqrt(x^2+2x-1)]
My book, however, says the answer is:
y' = (x+1)/y
In the answer key the book always explains how to get the correct answer. In this case it says to rewrite the thing as:
(x^2+2x-1)^(1/2)
and use the formula for derivatives of exponents:
d/dx u^(p/q) = (p/q) * [ u ^ ( [p/q] - 1) ] du/dx
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID BUT A GOT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ANSWER!!!!! :'-(
Do I just suck at life, or is my book wrong, or does my answer somehow equal the book's and I just need to use some wacked algebraic manipulation to get the book's answer?
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance :)
PS- So it's easy to find:
My answer: y' = (x+1)/[sqrt(x^2+2x-1)]
The book's answer: y' = (x+1)/y
y' = (x+1)/[sqrt(x^2+2x-1)]
My book, however, says the answer is:
y' = (x+1)/y
In the answer key the book always explains how to get the correct answer. In this case it says to rewrite the thing as:
(x^2+2x-1)^(1/2)
and use the formula for derivatives of exponents:
d/dx u^(p/q) = (p/q) * [ u ^ ( [p/q] - 1) ] du/dx
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID BUT A GOT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ANSWER!!!!! :'-(
Do I just suck at life, or is my book wrong, or does my answer somehow equal the book's and I just need to use some wacked algebraic manipulation to get the book's answer?
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance :)
PS- So it's easy to find:
My answer: y' = (x+1)/[sqrt(x^2+2x-1)]
The book's answer: y' = (x+1)/y
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The equation can be written as y^2 = x^2 + 2x - 1
Now differentiate both sides of this equation with respect to x. This gives
2ydy/dx = 2x + 2
dy/dx = (x + 1)/y
Now differentiate both sides of this equation with respect to x. This gives
2ydy/dx = 2x + 2
dy/dx = (x + 1)/y
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That's the same thing! Notice that y = sqrt(x^2 + 2x - 1), so the book's answer is just a shorthand version of what you got. Good job!
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Yeah!