Eric Nicholas K's answer to heyhiyo's Secondary 4 A Maths Singapore question.

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Eric Nicholas K
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I used the laws of indices and logarithms to simplify the expression before differentiating it. This avoids a more complicated working later on.

Remember to use chain rule as usual.