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This document provides practice problems and answers related to laws of logarithms. There are multiple practice sections with problems involving evaluating logarithmic expressions, solving logarithmic equations, and solving simultaneous logarithmic equations. The answers to each practice problem are provided.

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This document provides practice problems and answers related to laws of logarithms. There are multiple practice sections with problems involving evaluating logarithmic expressions, solving logarithmic equations, and solving simultaneous logarithmic equations. The answers to each practice problem are provided.

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10.2 Laws of logarithms

Practice 1
1) Solve these equations:
a. log3 x = 25logx 3 b. log4 x = 36logx
c. log2 x = 81logx 2 d. log2 x = 9logx 5
e. log3 x = 12logx 4 f. log2 x = 15logx 3

2) Solve the simultaneous equations:


log(𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥) = 5
𝑥𝑥
log� � = 1
𝑦𝑦

Practice 2
3) Find the value of these logarithms:
a. log2 16 b. log3 27
c. log4 256 d. log5 125
e. log432 f. log9 27

4) Express each of these as a single logarithm:


a log 4 + log 3 − log 2 b. log 8 + log 32 − 2log 4
c. 5log 3 − 2log 9 d. 6log 2 − log 8 + 2log 3
e. 5log 4 − 3log 2 f. 2log xy − log x − log y

5) Solve these equations:


a. 3x = 4 b. 4x = 6x–2
c. 3x = 2x−3 d. 4x = 10
e. 5x+1 = 0.75 f. 62x = 4x+2

6) Solve these equations:


a. 9log(x − 1) = log 16
b. lg(40y) − lg(y − 6) = 2
c. log4(3x) − log4(x − 1) = 1
d. 2log2 x + 2 = log2(9x − 2)
e. 2 + 2log3(x + 1) = log3(3x + 7) + log3(3x + 1)
f. 2 + 2log4(x + 1) = log4 5 + log4(3x + 5)
g. 1 + 2log8 x = log8(9x − 1)
h. log x − log(x − 1) = log 3 − log(x − 5)

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7) Solve these simultaneous equations:
a. 1 + log2 x = log2(y + 3)
log2(y + 2) − log2(x − 4) = log2(x + 4)
b. 9 × 3p = 27q
log2(3p − q) = l
c. 3x × 9y = 6561
log 4 + log x = log(11 − y)
d. log2 x + 2log2 y = 5 + log2 10
2log2 x + log2 y = 1 + 2log2 10
e. 2x = 8 × 2y
log(2x − 3y) = 1
f. log x + log y = log 2 + 2log 6
3log x + 2log y = 6log 6

Practice 3
8) Given that p = log4 x and that q = log4 y, express the following in terms of
p and/or q.
𝑥𝑥 3
a. log4� �
√𝑦𝑦
b. logx 16 − log2 y2
c. logxy 16

9) a. Given that log3 x = 2, find the value of x.


b. Solve the equation 2log3 y − log3(y − 2) = 2.

10) If loga(pq2) = 12 and loga(p3q2) = 16, find:


a. loga p
b. loga q
c. logp a + logq a

11) Given that A = log2a 8, express A(1 + loga 2) as a single logarithm.

12) Solve the simultaneous equations:


log5 2 + log5(2y − 5) = 1 + log5 x
log3(x + 5y) = 3

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Answers

Practice 1
1 1
1) a. 243, 1 b. 4096,
243 4096
1
c. 512, d. 23.8, 0.0421
512
e. 71.9, 0.0139 f. 29.4, 0.0341
2) x = 1000, y = 100

Practice 2
3) a. 4 b. 3 c. 4
d. 3 e. 2.5 f. 1.5
4) a. log 6 b. log 16 c. log 3
d. log 72 e. log 128 f. log xy
5) a. 1.26 b. 8.84 c. −5.128
d. 1.66 e −1.18 f. 1.26
6) a. 2.36 b. 10 c. 4
1 1
d. ,2 e. f. 0.388
4 3
1
g. ,1 h. 7.61
8
7) a. (5, 7) b. p = 1, q = 1 c. x = 2, y = 3
d. x = 5, y = 8 e. x = −1, y = −4 f. x = 9, y = 8

Practice 3
1 2 2
8) a. 3𝑝𝑝 − 𝑞𝑞 b. − 4𝑞𝑞c.
2 𝑝𝑝 𝑝𝑝+𝑞𝑞
9) a. 9 b. 3, 6
7
10) a. 2 b. 5 c.
10
11) loga 8 (= 3loga 2)
12) x = 2, y = 5

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