And now this, just using our exponent properties, this is going to be equal to the derivative with respect to x of, and I'll just keep color coding it. If I raise something to an exponent and then raise that to an exponent, that's the same thing as raising our original base to the product of those exponents. That's just a basic exponent property. So that's going to be the same thing as e to the natural log of a, natural log of a, times x power. Times x power. And now we can use the chain rule to evaluate this derivative. So what we will do is we will first take the derivative of the outside function, so e to the natural log of a times x, with respect to the inside function, with respect to natural log of a times x.