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document.write( "Use a rule of logarithms of exponentials on the right side:\r
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document.write( "[I wrote it that way so your would recognize that ln(2) is just a constant.]\r
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document.write( "Find the derivative of both sides, remembering that ln(2) is just a
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document.write( "constant and that we must use the chain rule on the right side by
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document.write( "taking the derivitive of the \"inside\":\r
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document.write( "Multiply both sides by y\r
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document.write( "To get the derivative in terms of x only, we go back to
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document.write( "the original equation  and
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document.write( "Writing the constants first, and the more complicated factor last:\r
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