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What is Product Rule

What is Product Rule


Product rule is a simple method or way used for solving some of the calculus
related problems.
The product rule is applied on calculus problems which are in the form of
product of the two different functions.
The product rule of derivatives has a number of uses on different and specific
places in real life.
Sometimes in calculus when we encounter some of the calculus problems
which have use of functions that are the in the form of multiplication of two
different types of functions, for example we have functions:
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F(x) = x*ex = (x) * (ex), F(x) = x*sin(x) = (x) * (sin x), F(x) = e-x2cos (2x) = (ex2)*cos (2x).
To find the solution for such type of functions we use the product rule. Product
rule is used to find the derivatives of such functions which are in form of product
of two different functions. In general term, we can take the function f(x) such
that: F(x) = h(x)*g(x) so, to find the derivative of this function f(x) we have to
find the differentiation of multiplication of these two functions.
So, F(x) = h(x)*g(x), F(x) = first fn * derivative of second fn + derivative of first
fn * second fn, F(x) = h(x) * g(x) + h(x) * g(x).
This derivative function formula for derivative of two functions. In the term of
definition of product rule of the derivatives we can say that, the derivative for
product of functions is The product of derivative of the first function with second
function which is added with the product of first function and derivative of
second function. So, the product rule is a formal rule for the product of two
functions. The example for product rule can be taken as:
Say functions: f(x) = (x3-5x2+1) * (2x-5), f(x) = (2x-5)*d/dx (x3-5x2+1) + (x35x2+1)*d/dx(2x-5), f(x) = (2x-5)*(3x2-10x) + (x3-5x2+1)*(2), f(x) = (2x-5)*(3x210x) + 2(x3-5x2+1), f(x) = 8x3 - 45x2 + 50x + 2.
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