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Can someone help me with this? You don't need to do MATLAB, just compute manually.
The discussion focuses on manually calculating the derivative of the implicit function defined by the equation $y^4 + xy = 2x^2 - 7x + 7$. The derivative is derived using implicit differentiation, resulting in $\frac{dy}{dx} = \frac{4x - y - 7}{4y^3 + x}$. At the point (1, 1), the slope of the tangent line is calculated as $\frac{dy}{dx} = \frac{-4}{5}$. Consequently, the equation of the tangent line, denoted as T(x), is determined to be $T(x) = -\frac{4}{5}(x - 1) + 1 = -\frac{4}{5}x + \frac{1}{5}$.
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