differentiating square-roots

[Axg002-disabled]

I wanted to know if someone could help me simply the answer to this problem...or let me know if I can even simply this. This is where I got to:
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Thank you so much for your help! It will be greatly appreciated!

Ashley

[TomGutman]

You can rewrite the expression in various ways, such as factoring out a power of x. But nothing that would clearly be considered as simpler.

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