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  • - [Voiceover] The following tables lists the values

  • of functions f and h, and of their derivatives,

  • f prime and h prime for x is equal to three.

  • So all this is telling us,

  • with x is equal to three,

  • the value of the function is six, f of three is six,

  • you could view it that way.

  • h of three is zero, f prime of three is six,

  • and h prime of three is four.

  • And now they want us to evaluate the derivative

  • with respect to x of the product of f of x and h of x

  • when x is equal to three.

  • One way you could view this is,

  • if we viewed some function,

  • if we viewed some function g of x.

  • g of x as being equal to the product of f of x

  • and h of x,

  • this expression is the derivative of g of x.

  • So we could write g prime of x is equal to the derivative

  • with respect to x

  • of f of x

  • times h of x.

  • Which is what we see right here,

  • and which is what we want to evaluate at x equals three.

  • So we essentially want to evaluate

  • g prime

  • of three.

  • This is what they're asking us to do.

  • Well, to do that, let's go first up here.

  • Let's just think about what this is doing.

  • They're asking us to take the derivative

  • with respect to x of the product of two functions

  • that we have some information about.

  • Well, if we're taking the derivative of the product

  • of two functions, you could imagine that the

  • product rule could prove useful here.

  • So I'm just gonna restate the product rule.

  • This is going to be equal to the derivative

  • of the first function,

  • f prime of x,

  • times the second function, not taking its derivative.

  • Plus the first function, not taking its derivative,

  • f of x, times the derivative of the second function,

  • h prime of x.

  • So if you're trying to find g prime of three,

  • well that's just going to be

  • f prime of three times h of three

  • plus f of three

  • times h prime of three.

  • And lucky for us, they give us what all these things

  • evaluate to.

  • f prime of three, right over here, they tell us.

  • f prime when x is equal to three is equal to six.

  • So this right over here is six.

  • h of three, they give us that, too.

  • h of three, when x is three, the value of our

  • function is zero.

  • So this is zero.

  • So this first term is you just get six times zero,

  • which is gonna be zero, but we'll get to that.

  • Now f of three.

  • f of three.

  • Well, the function when x is equal to three,

  • f of three is equal to six.

  • So that is six.

  • And then finally,

  • h prime evaluated at three,

  • h prime of x when x is equal to three,

  • h prime of x is equal to four.

  • Or you could say this is h prime of three.

  • So this is four.

  • And so there you have it.

  • This is going to evaluate to six times zero,

  • which, that's all just gonna be zero,

  • plus six times four,

  • which is going to be equal to 24.

  • And we're done.

- [Voiceover] The following tables lists the values

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