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For this problem, we have been given a curve.
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Y equals 2x divided by x squared plus 1, and the point 1 -1.
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And we have two different things we want to find.
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We want to find the tangent line and the normal line to this curve at this point.
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So let's take a step back.
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If we want to find the equation of a line, if you know the slope and a point, you can use the point slope form to find the equation of the line.
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That's y minus y1 equals m times x minus x1.
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Well, we have been given a point, 1 -1.
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So i have x1 and y -1.
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What i need is the slope.
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And the slope of a curve can be found by the derivative.
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So we need to find the derivative of my equation y.
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Now this is a quotient, pretty obvious by looking at it.
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We have a numerator and denominator.
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So we're going to need to use our derivative rule, or our, sorry, our quotient.
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Rule.
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So let's take a step back and remember what the quotient rule says.
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If i have a quotient, f of x over g of x, and i want to find the derivative, that's going to be the denominator times the derivative of the numerator minus the numerator times the derivative of the denominator all over the denominator squared.
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That's the quotient rule.
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So that's what i'll be using to find the derivative of y.
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So let's begin.
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First, denominator, x squared plus 1 times the derivative of the numerator.
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The derivative of 2x is just 2, minus the numerator 2x times the derivative of the denominator, and that's going to be 2x as well, all over the denominator squared.
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Now, if i was stopping here.
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If my goal was just to find the derivative, i would clean this up.
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I would get rid of the parentheses in my numerator.
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Hopefully some things would cancel.
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I could make it look nice and neat...