Common Calculus Mistakes
Quotient Rule

Some problems provide the opportunity for more than one mistake.


The Goal

Find

goal


The Mistakes

Find the mistakes:

1.

mistake

Need a hint? Look carefully at the red part:

mistake


2.

mistake

Need a hint? Look carefully at the red part:

mistake



A Correct Solution

correction


Explanations

In the first mistake the quotient rule was not used correctly. The quotient rule is:

goal

In the mistake the numerator was taken to be just f'(z) - g'(z). Oops!

In the second mistake parentheses were not used around the g(z) part of the expression in the numerator, with the result that only the first part of g(z) was multiplied by f'(z). Use parentheses!

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