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Exploration16DueWednesday11/11

1)Solveeachforx:

102x = 68

e3x+6 = 5.73

2)Rewriteeachexponentialequationasalogarithmicequation.Checkyourwork.

e7.12 = 1236
e.78 = .458
102.73 = 537

3)Consideringthat 103 = 1, 000 and 104 = 10, 000 ,estimate

withoutusingacalculator
:

a. 103.8

b. log(396)

4)Perhapsunknowntoyouuntilnow,logarithmshavebases,whicharewrittenassubscripts.
Forexample, log5(75) wouldreadlogbase5of75.Naturallogarithmshaveabaseof
e
andif
nobaseiswritten,weassumeittobe10. ln(1236) isthesameas loge(1236) .Also, log(537) is
thesameas log10(537) .Howdoyouthinkthebaseofalogarithmrelatestoitsexponential
version?

5)(continuation)Consideringyourhypothesis,rewrite log5(75) = 2.68 asanexponential

equation,thentestyourhypothesis.

6)RecallfromExploration15that log(1997) = 3.3 .Evaluateeachlogarithmanddescribeany

patternsyounotice:

log(19972)
log(19973)
log(1997
log(1997 104)
100 )