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Hi Nafis, First you need to decide if this is \[y = x^{\left(x^x\right)} \mbox{ or } y = \left(x^x\right)^{x}.\] If you don't see that these are different calculate \[\left(2^3\right)^3 \mbox{ and } 2^{\left(3^3\right)}.\] In either case you have expressions of the form \[h(x) = f(x)^{g(x)}.\] To differentiate $h(x)$ first take the Natural Logarithm of both sides to get \[\ln(h(x)) = \ln\left(f(x)^{g(x)}\right) = g(x) \ln(f(x)).\] now differentiate with respect to $x$ to get \[\frac{h^{\prime}(x)}{h(x)} = g^{\prime}(x) \ln(f(x)) + g(x) \frac{f^{\prime}(x)}{f(x)}.\] Solve for $h^{\prime}(x).$ This expression should allow you to solve your problem, | ||||||||||||
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