How do you differentiate $y= 6/x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-09T03:57:25

We can rewrite the expression $y=6/x$ as $y=6x^(-1)$ and apply the power rule for derivatives.

In this case, $y'=(-6)/(x^2)$ .

The power rule for derivatives states that $d/dx[u^(n)]=n*u^(n-1)$ .

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