Taking Calculus? Help a brother out on a History project.

[PowerMac4Ever]

Hello, I need to enlist the help of someone good at Calculus. For my history project, we have to find clues to describe President Eisenhower. From our clues, other kids in the class have to figure out which president it is. Anyway, as one of my clues, I would like to have a complex (or simple) Calculus equation whose answer is 34. I'm pretty sure Eisenhower is the 34th president... feel free to double-check that. No one in my class is taking Calculus this year, so what's easy for you is hard for us. It would be great if it were something a Calc student could (or couldn't) solve, but something a PreCalc student couldn't solve. Here's the current problem I plan on using:

y = 17x + 1/2
Find the first derivitive of this function.

The answer is 34x (I think). I'm not sure if that's Calculus, but something harder would be great.

Thanks

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
Hello, I need to enlist the help of someone good at Calculus. For my history project, we have to find clues to describe President Eisenhower. From our clues, other kids in the class have to figure out which president it is. Anyway, as one of my clues, I would like to have a complex (or simple) Calculus equation whose answer is 34. I'm pretty sure Eisenhower is the 34th president... feel free to double-check that. No one in my class is taking Calculus this year, so what's easy for you is hard for us. It would be great if it were something a Calc student could (or couldn't) solve, but something a PreCalc student couldn't solve. Here's the current problem I plan on using:

y = 17x + 1/2
Find the first derivitive of this function.

The answer is 34x (I think). I'm not sure if that's Calculus, but something harder would be great.

Thanks

y = 17x^2 + 1/2
Taking the derivative, you'd end up with y' = 34x

 

[Gunslinger08]

actually, the derivative of that is 17

so use y = 34x + 15.12354959345 or something.. y' of that is 34.

I finished Calc BC a few months ago, so I forgot it all... I can give you statistics crap though.

Josh

 

[Chaotic42]

If f(x)=17x + 0.5 then f'(x) = 17.

Power rule: if f(x) = q * x ^(n) then f'(x) = q*n*x ^ (n-1)

You could do 17x^(2) and get 34x as the derivative.

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

Oops, actually had the "^(2)" written on the paper. Looks like I'm going to go with it.