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A tangent line is drawn to the hyperbola $ xy = c $ at a point $ P. $(a) Show that the midpoint of the line segment cut from this tangent line by the coordinate axes is $ P. $(b) Show that the triangle formed by the tangent line and the coordinate axes always has the same area, no matter where $ P $ is located on the hyperbola.
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Frank Lin
Calculus 1 / AB
Chapter 3
Differentiation Rules
Section 1
Derivatives of Polynomials and Exponential Functions
Derivatives
Differentiation
Campbell University
Harvey Mudd College
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
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In mathematics, a derivative is a measure of how a function changes as its input changes. Loosely speaking, a derivative can be thought of as how much one quantity is changing in response to changes in some other quantity; for example, the derivative of the position of a moving object with respect to time is the object's velocity. The concept of a derivative developed as a way to measure the steepness of a curve; the concept was ultimately generalized and now "derivative" is often used to refer to the relationship between two variables, independent and dependent, and to various related notions, such as the differential.
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In mathematics, a differentiation rule is a rule for computing the derivative of a function in one variable. Many differentiation rules can be expressed as a product rule.
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