a variation on the chain rule

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Consider the composition of functions $A = B \circ C$ and choose 2 of the functions to be differentiable, so there are $\binom{3}{2}$ cases

  1. (Chain rule) If B and C are differentiable, then A is differentiable.
  2. If A and B are differentiable, is C differentiable?
  3. Likewise, if A and C are differentiable, is B differentiable?

The only way I see so far is to use the inverse function theorem, but I feel this is not the simplest approach, plus it introduces the additional hypothesis of requiring non zero derivative. So is there a better approach?