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No. What you wrote above doesn't mean what you think.I unfortunately keep on getting the wrong answer to this problem.
I am supposed to find: dw/dy(1/(w^2+x^2)+1/(w^2+y^2))
Sebastian B said:I attached a picture of how I tried to solve it. Help would be much appreciated.
You mean that you need to find ∂w/∂y given that (1/(w2+x2)+1/(w2+y2)) = 1. Right ?I unfortunately keep on getting the wrong answer to this problem.
I am supposed to find: dw/dy(1/(w^2+x^2)+1/(w^2+y^2))
Hello Sebastian B. Welcome to PF !I attached a picture of how I tried to solve it. Help would be much appreciated.
No. What you wrote above doesn't mean what you think.
I believe what you are supposed to do is use implicit differentiation to find ##\frac{\partial w}{\partial y}##, although that is not clear from what you wrote on the first line. On the third line you have a mistake. Since ##\frac{1}{w^2 + x^2}## does not involve y, its partial derivative with respect to y is zero.