5 3 1  Derivatives of composite functions
To study derivative of composite functions, we start with an illustrative example Say,
we want to find the derivative of f, where
f (x) = (2x + 1)3
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One way is to expand (2x + 1)3 using binomial theorem and find the derivative as
a polynomial function as illustrated below