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4 Computing Derivatives, Product and Quotient Rules: Math 180 Worksheets

The document provides a worksheet with math problems involving computing derivatives using various rules including the product rule, quotient rule, and chain rule. It contains 6 problems: 1) finding higher order derivatives, 2) taking derivatives of various functions, 3) sketching the derivative of a graphed function, 4) finding the derivative at a point and using it to find a tangent line, and 5-6) using given function values and derivatives to compute other derivatives. The worksheet provides practice with fundamental techniques of differentiation.

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4 Computing Derivatives, Product and Quotient Rules: Math 180 Worksheets

The document provides a worksheet with math problems involving computing derivatives using various rules including the product rule, quotient rule, and chain rule. It contains 6 problems: 1) finding higher order derivatives, 2) taking derivatives of various functions, 3) sketching the derivative of a graphed function, 4) finding the derivative at a point and using it to find a tangent line, and 5-6) using given function values and derivatives to compute other derivatives. The worksheet provides practice with fundamental techniques of differentiation.

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Math 180 Worksheets

4 Computing derivatives, Product and quotient rules


Keywords: derivatives, derivative graphs, differentiation, power rule, tangent lines, product
rule, quotient rule

1. Find the first 3 derivatives of the function f (x) = 3x2 + 5ex . What are the 4th, 5th,
6th, nth derivatives?

2. Find the derivative of the following functions. Do not simplify!

(a) g(t) = πe3


w3 − w
(d) g(w) =
w

√
(b) g(y) = 6 y
√
(e) f (x) = (4x2 + 2x + 3)( x + 2)

√ 4x2 + 2x + 3
(c) s(t) = 4 t − 1 4
t +t+1 (f) f (x) = √
4 x+2

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3. The graph of g(x) is shown below.

g
.5

x
−.5 .5 1 1.5 2 2.5

−.5

−1

Sketch the graph of the derivative g 0 (x) and explain your answer.

4. Consider the function f (x) = 2ex − 6x.

(a) Find f 0 (1). What does f 0 (1) represent for the tangent line?

(b) Find an equation of the tangent line of f at x = 1.

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5. Assume that f and g are differentiable functions about which we know very little. In
fact, assume that all we know about these functions is the following table of data:

x f (x) f 0 (x) g(x) g 0 (x)


0 5 9 9 −3
1 3 −3 2 6
2 −5 3 8 5

(a) Let h(x) = f (x)g(x), what is h0 (0)?

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(b) Let k(x) = , what is k 0 (2)?
f (x)

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