Business Mathematics Homework #3 Due: ID: Name:
A. Differentiations of exponential and logarithmic functions
1. Consider a general exponential function f ( x) = 3x.
(a) Find its derivative at x
3h − 1
using the fact that lim = ln 3.
h→0 h
(b) Find its derivative at x by an implicit differentiation.
B. Implicit differentiation
C. Derivative of inverse functions
Suppose the function f is defined for all x by the following formula.
f ( x) = x5 + 3x3 + 6 x − 3
(a) Show that f has an inverse function g .
(b) Use the following formula (3) to find g ′(7). (Note that f (1) = 7)
1
g ′( y0 )
= = ( y0 f ( x0 )) (3)
f ′( x0 )
D. Differentials