Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1285741552
ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 3 - Review - True-False Quiz - Page 266: 7

Answer

False

Work Step by Step

The point here is to think of this as just the power rule, but that requires the variable $x$ to be the base, not the exponent. Instead, we have another rule when a constant value is raised to a variable we are differentiating with respect to. This rule states that $\frac{d}{dx}(a^{x})=a^{x}ln(a)$ Notice that if $a=e$ then we have our classic exponential derivative property because $ln e=1$ Hence, the given statement is false.
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