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Question 01 (c)
Find $f'(x)$ where $f(x)={\frac {(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}(x))(e^{x^{2}})}{x^{4}+7}}$ Do NOT simplify your answer.

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Hint 1
Which differentiation rules do you need to solve this question? You'll need more than one.

Hint 2
Try using the quotient rule first, and then the chain rule as needed.

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Solution 1

One method of solving this problem is to use the quotient rule: $f'(x)={\frac {\left({\frac {d}{dx}}{\Big [}(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(e^{x^{2}}){\Big ]}\right)(x^{4}+7)-(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(e^{x^{2}}){\bigl (}{\frac {d}{dx}}(x^{4}+7){\bigr )}}{(x^{4}+7)^{2}}}$ For the first derivative we need the product rule (and then the chain rule): ${\begin{aligned}{\frac {d}{dx}}{\Big [}(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(e^{x^{2}}){\Big ]}&={\bigl (}{\frac {d}{dx}}(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x){\bigr )}e^{x^{2}}+(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x){\bigl (}{\frac {d}{dx}}e^{x^{2}}{\bigr )}\\&=(2x+6\sin x\cos x)e^{x^{2}}+(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(2xe^{x^{2}})\end{aligned}}$ Then, by substitution ${\begin{aligned}f'(x)&={\frac {\left((2x+6\sin x\cos x)e^{x^{2}}+(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(2xe^{x^{2}})\right)(x^{4}+7)-(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)e^{x^{2}}4x^{3}}{(x^{4}+7)^{2}}}\\\end{aligned}}$ Luckily, no further simplification is required for this question.

Solution 2

Another method of solving this problem is to use the product rule. First re-write the denominator of the given function using exponent notation ${\begin{aligned}f(x)&={\frac {(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(e^{x^{2}})}{x^{4}+7}}\\&=(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(e^{x^{2}})(x^{4}+7)^{-1}\end{aligned}}$ This is a product of three functions. The product rule can be generalized from its two-function version to: ${\frac {d}{dx}}(f\cdot g\cdot h)={\frac {df}{dx}}\cdot g\cdot h+f\cdot {\frac {dg}{dx}}\cdot h+f\cdot g\cdot {\frac {dh}{dx}}$ So taking the derivative, we obtain ${\begin{aligned}f'(x)&={\frac {d}{dx}}{\Big (}(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(e^{x^{2}})(x^{4}+7)^{-1}{\Big )}\\&={\Big (}{\frac {d}{dx}}(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x){\Big )}(e^{x^{2}})(x^{4}+7)^{-1}\\&\quad +(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x){\Big (}{\frac {d}{dx}}(e^{x^{2}}){\Big )}(x^{4}+7)^{-1}\\&\quad +(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(e^{x^{2}}){\Big (}{\frac {d}{dx}}(x^{4}+7)^{-1}{\Big )}\\&={\Big (}2x+6\sin x\cos x{\Big )}(e^{x^{2}})(x^{4}+7)^{-1}\\&\quad +(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x){\Big (}2xe^{x^{2}}{\Big )}(x^{4}+7)^{-1}\\&\quad +(x^{2}+3\sin ^{2}x)(e^{x^{2}}){\Big (}-4x^{3}(x^{4}+7)^{-2}{\Big )}\end{aligned}}$ No further simplification is required, for this question.

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