Problem #149


A calculus student confuses the chain rule and the product rule. Find examples where this is valid, i.e. find pairs of functions f and g such that

(f ∘ g)′ = f ′ ∘ g + f ∘ g′.

where ∘ denotes composition of functions.

Source: Gary Gislason and Murray Klamkin



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