As a side note, obviously if the question says "use the quotient rule", you have no choice, but if you have something of the form
dxdg(x)αf(x) (with
α=1), it's generally easier to rewrite this as
dxdf(x)g(x)−α and use the product rule.
[they're not really *that* different, but you don't end up with as much to cancel at the simplification stage].