How do you differentiate $y=x^(1-e)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-06-27T21:40:18

$= (1-e) x^{-e}$

well you presumably know that if

$y = x^n$

then

$y' = n \ x^{n-1}$

so if we see here that $n = 1-e$ and just pattern match

then $y' = (1-e) * x^{1-e-1} = (1-e) x^{-e}$

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