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I have a "pop" quiz tomorrow in my calc course and my professor is stating that we have to be able to restate the proof of inverse function derivatives. I am looking it over in my book and it's pretty straight forward except for one part that I can't figure out...
This is listed step by step
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\ (f^-1)'(a)=\lim_{x \to a}\frac{f^-1(x) - f^-1 (a)}{x-a}
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[tex]
\lim_{y \to b}\frac{y-b}{f(y)-f(b)}
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[tex]
\lim_{y \to b}\frac{1}{\frac{f(y)-f(b)}{y-b}}=\frac{1}{\lim_{y \to b}\frac{f(y)-f(b)}{y-b}}
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[tex]
= \frac{1}{f'(b)} = \frac{1}{f'(f^-1(a))}
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I get lost on the second to last line where it switches from the f(y)-f(b)/y-b to just the reciprocal of f'(b). The former is simply just the definition of the derivative of the function b, right?
This is listed step by step
[tex]
\ (f^-1)'(a)=\lim_{x \to a}\frac{f^-1(x) - f^-1 (a)}{x-a}
[/tex]
[tex]
\lim_{y \to b}\frac{y-b}{f(y)-f(b)}
[/tex]
[tex]
\lim_{y \to b}\frac{1}{\frac{f(y)-f(b)}{y-b}}=\frac{1}{\lim_{y \to b}\frac{f(y)-f(b)}{y-b}}
[/tex]
[tex]
= \frac{1}{f'(b)} = \frac{1}{f'(f^-1(a))}
[/tex]
I get lost on the second to last line where it switches from the f(y)-f(b)/y-b to just the reciprocal of f'(b). The former is simply just the definition of the derivative of the function b, right?
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