Is this the correct way to do Implicit Differentiation? 
Problem:
Use implicit differentiation to compute $\frac{\partial z}{\partial x}$ and $\frac{\partial z}{\partial y}$ of the function $ x^3 + y^3 +z^3 - 3xyz = 0 $.
What I Got:
$3x^2 + 0 + 3z^2 \cdot \frac{\partial z}{\partial x} - 3y \cdot \frac{\partial z}{\partial x}$
$\frac{\partial z}{\partial x} (3z^2 - 3y) = -3x^2$
$\frac{\partial z}{\partial x} = \frac{-3x^2}{3z^2-3y}$

and

$0 + 3y^2 + 3z^2 \cdot \frac{\partial z}{\partial y} - 3x \cdot \frac{\partial z}{\partial y}$
$\frac{\partial z}{\partial y} (3z^2 - 3x) = -3y^2$
$\frac{\partial z}{\partial y} = \frac{-3y^2}{3z^2-3y}$

For what I have got, is this the correct way to do this question?
Thanks in advance.
 A: You have made an error in implicit partial differentiation of the $−3xyz$ term. Note that$$\frac{\partial(-3xyz)}{\partial x}=-3y\frac{\partial(xz)}{\partial x}$$since $y$ is treated as a constant when differentiating with respect to $x$. Recall that $z$ is actually a function of both $y$ and $x$, i.e. $z=z(x,y)$, so $z$ can't be given the same treatment as $y$.
You can evaluate this using the product rule of differentiation, i.e. $(uv)_x=u_xv+uv_x$, to get$$-3y\frac{\partial(xz)}{\partial x}=-3y\left[z+x\frac{\partial z}{\partial x}\right]$$Similarly when you are differentiating with respect to $y$.
A: The easiest way to do this is to simply differentiate the full equation at the beginning, and then create partials from it.  So, if you start with
$$ x^3 + y^3 + z^3 - 3xyz = 0$$
Then with differentiation, you will get:
$$ 3x^2 dx + 3y^2 dy + 3z^2 dz - 3xy dz - 3zx dy - 3 zy dx = 0 $$
Everything divides by 3, giving:
$$ x^2 dx + y^2 dy + z^2 dz - xy dz - zx dy - zy dx = 0 $$
You can use this as the starting point for all your partial derivatives.
Now, for each partial differential, just set the other differentials to zero and solve.  So, for $\frac{\partial z}{\partial x}$ all instances of $dy$ become $0$ and this becomes:
$$ x^2 \partial x + y^2 \cdot 0 + z^2 \partial z - xy \,\partial z - zx \cdot 0 - zy \,\partial x = 0 $$
$$ x^2 \partial x +z^2 \partial z - xy \,\partial z - zy \,\partial x = 0 $$ 
Now just solve for $\frac{\partial z}{\partial x}$ algebraically.
$$ z^2 \partial z - xy \,\partial z = zy \,\partial x - x^2 \partial x $$
$$ \frac{\partial z}{\partial x} = \frac{zy - x^2}{z^2 - xy} $$
You can do the same to get $\frac{\partial z}{\partial y}$.
