Section 11.6

Derivatives of Products and Quotients

The basic derivative formulas in Section 11.4 allow you to differentiate a wide variety of functions. However, many of the economic functions we would like to analyze are products or quotients. Revenue is the product of the quantity sold and the unit price. Average cost is the quotient of the cost and the quantity produced. To find the derivative of either of these functions, we’ll need rules for finding the derivative of products or quotients.

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