SOLUTION: DIFFERENTIATE WITH RESPECT TO X (x - 3)(x+3)

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Question 235013: DIFFERENTIATE WITH RESPECT TO X (x - 3)(x+3)
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I presume you were given and you want to find

One way (the hard way) to do this would be to say that where and .

Then use the product rule:

If , then .

For your function, using the sum and power rules:



and



Therefore



The easy way is to just multiply

Then apply the sum rule and the power rule to say

John