Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
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Chapter 14 - Section 14.3 - Partial Derivatives - 14.3 Exercise - Page 925: 45

Answer

$f_{x}(x, y)=y^{2}-3 x^{2} y$ $f_{y}(x, y)=2 x y-x^{3}$

Work Step by Step

$$ f(x,y)=xy^{2}-x^{3}y $$ The partial derivative of $f$ with respect to $x$ is given by: $$ \begin{aligned} f_{x}(x, y) &=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{f(x+h, y)-f(x, y)}{h} \\ &=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{(x+h) y^{2}-(x+h)^{3} y-\left(x y^{2}-x^{3} y\right)}{h} \\ & =\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{h\left(y^{2}-3 x^{2} y-3 x y h-y h^{2}\right)}{h}\\ &=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0}\left(y^{2}-3 x^{2} y-3 x y h-y h^{2}\right) \\ &=y^{2}-3 x^{2} y. \end{aligned} $$ The partial derivative of $f$ with respect to $y$ is given by: $$ \begin{aligned} f_{y}(x, y) &=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{f(x, y+h)-f(x, y)}{h} \\ & =\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{x(y+h)^{2}-x^{3}(y+h)-\left(x y^{2}-x^{3} y\right)}{h}\\ &=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{h\left(2 x y+x h-x^{3}\right)}{h} \\ &=\lim _{h \rightarrow 0}\left(2 x y+x h-x^{3}\right)\\ &=2 x y-x^{3}. \end{aligned} $$
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