Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Use implicit differentiation to find an equation of the tangent line at the given point

Does the given point belongs to the given curve?


 and   also.


Then equation of the tangent line is Perform implicit differentiation to find



solve this equation for



At the given point it is equal to   and the equation of the tangent line is


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