Find the derivative of LaTeX: \displaystyle y = \frac{\left(x + 8\right)^{7} \sqrt{6 x + 4}}{\sin^{7}{\left(x \right)} \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}}

Taking the natural logarithm of both sides of the equation and expanding the right hand side gives: LaTeX: \ln(y) = \ln{\left(\frac{\left(x + 8\right)^{7} \sqrt{6 x + 4}}{\sin^{7}{\left(x \right)} \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}} \right)} Expanding the right hand side using the product and quotient properties of logarithms gives: LaTeX: \ln(y) = 7 \ln{\left(x + 8 \right)} + \frac{\ln{\left(6 x + 4 \right)}}{2}- 7 \ln{\left(\sin{\left(x \right)} \right)} - 2 \ln{\left(\cos{\left(x \right)} \right)} Taking the derivative on both sides of the equation yields: LaTeX: \frac{y'}{y} = \frac{2 \sin{\left(x \right)}}{\cos{\left(x \right)}} - \frac{7 \cos{\left(x \right)}}{\sin{\left(x \right)}} + \frac{3}{6 x + 4} + \frac{7}{x + 8} Solving for LaTeX: \displaystyle y' and substituting out y using the original equation gives LaTeX: y' = \left(\frac{2 \sin{\left(x \right)}}{\cos{\left(x \right)}} - \frac{7 \cos{\left(x \right)}}{\sin{\left(x \right)}} + \frac{3}{6 x + 4} + \frac{7}{x + 8}\right)\left(\frac{\left(x + 8\right)^{7} \sqrt{6 x + 4}}{\sin^{7}{\left(x \right)} \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}} \right) Using some Trigonometric identities to simplify gives LaTeX: y' = \left(\frac{3}{6 x + 4} + \frac{7}{x + 8}2 \tan{\left(x \right)} - \frac{7}{\tan{\left(x \right)}}\right)\left(\frac{\left(x + 8\right)^{7} \sqrt{6 x + 4}}{\sin^{7}{\left(x \right)} \cos^{2}{\left(x \right)}} \right)