Calculus: Early Transcendentals (2nd Edition)

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Chapter 12 - Functions of Several Veriables - 12.4 Partial Derivatives - 12.4 Exercises - Page 904: 42

Answer

$${f_{xy}}\left( {x,y} \right) = {\text{ }}{f_{yx}}\left( {x,y} \right) = - 6x{y^{ - 2}} + 4{x^{ - 2}}y$$

Work Step by Step

$$\eqalign{ & f\left( {x,y} \right) = 3{x^2}{y^{ - 1}} - 2{x^{ - 1}}{y^2} \cr & {\text{Find the first partial derivatives }}{f_x}\left( {x,y} \right){\text{ and }}{f_y}\left( {x,y} \right){\text{ then}} \cr & {f_x}\left( {x,y} \right) = \frac{\partial }{{\partial x}}\left[ {3{x^2}{y^{ - 1}} - 2{x^{ - 1}}{y^2}} \right] \cr & {\text{treat }}y{\text{ as a constant}}{\text{, then}} \cr & {f_x}\left( {x,y} \right) = {y^{ - 1}}\frac{\partial }{{\partial x}}\left[ {3{x^2}} \right] - 2{y^2}\frac{\partial }{{\partial x}}\left[ {{x^{ - 1}}} \right] \cr & {f_x}\left( {x,y} \right) = 6x{y^{ - 1}} + 2{x^{ - 2}}{y^2} \cr & and \cr & {f_y}\left( {x,y} \right) = \frac{\partial }{{\partial y}}\left[ {3{x^2}{y^{ - 1}} - 2{x^{ - 1}}{y^2}} \right] \cr & {\text{treat }}x{\text{ as a constant}}{\text{, then }} \cr & {f_y}\left( {x,y} \right) = 3{x^2}\frac{\partial }{{\partial y}}\left[ {{y^{ - 1}}} \right] - 2{x^{ - 1}}\frac{\partial }{{\partial y}}\left[ {{y^2}} \right] \cr & {f_y}\left( {x,y} \right) = - 3{x^2}{y^{ - 2}} - 4{x^{ - 1}}y \cr & \cr & {\text{Find the second partial derivatives }}{f_{xy}}\left( {x,y} \right){\text{ and }}{f_{yx}}\left( {x,y} \right){\text{ then}} \cr & {f_{xy}}\left( {x,y} \right) = \frac{\partial }{{\partial y}}\left[ {6x{y^{ - 1}} + 2{x^{ - 2}}{y^2}} \right] \cr & {f_{xy}}\left( {x,y} \right) = - 6x{y^{ - 2}} + 4{x^{ - 2}}y \cr & and \cr & {\text{ }}{f_{yx}}\left( {x,y} \right) = \frac{\partial }{{\partial x}}\left[ { - 3{x^2}{y^{ - 2}} - 4{x^{ - 1}}y} \right] \cr & {\text{ }}{f_{yx}}\left( {x,y} \right) = - 6x{y^{ - 2}} + 4{x^{ - 2}}y \cr & \cr & {\text{Then}}{\text{, we can verify that }}{f_{xy}}\left( {x,y} \right) = {\text{ }}{f_{yx}}\left( {x,y} \right) = - 6x{y^{ - 2}} + 4{x^{ - 2}}y \cr} $$
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