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After reading this text and / or viewing the video tutorial on this topic you should be able to: explain what is meant by a logarithm. state and use the laws of logarithms. solve simple equations requiring the use of logarithms.
This topic introduces logarithms and exponential equations. Logarithms are used to solve exponential equations, and so are used along with exponential functions when modelling
What does it mean? First of all the assumptions (restrictions) are important. The number a, called the base of the logarithm, has to be greater than 0 and cannot be equal to 1. The number b (which we take the logarithm of) has to be greater than 0. So the expressions like log1 3, log 2 5 numbers (similarly to expressions like. p or log4( 6).
LOGARITHMS PRACTICE SIMPLIFYING EXPRESSIONS. single logarithm. log 2 7 + log 2 2. log 2 20 − log 2 4. 3log 5 2 + log 5 8. 2log 6 8 − 5log 6 2. log 10 8 + log 10 5 − log 10 0.5. log 2 14 , log 2 5 , log 5 64 , log 6 2 , log 10 80. single logarithm.
logarithm of a number, all you have to do is count its digits. For example the number 83,176,000 has eight digits, and therefore its log must be between 7 and 8. And since it’s a large eight-digit number, the log is closer to 8 than 7. (In fact, the log of this number is approximately 7.92.) Here’s the graph of positive base-10 logarithms ...
Essential Question. What are some of the characteristics of the graph of a logarithmic function? Every exponential function of the form f (x) bx, where b is a positive real number. = other than 1, has an inverse function that you can denote by g(x) = logb x. This inverse function is called a logarithmic function with base b.
Logarithms were originally developed to simplify complex arithmetic calculations. They were designed to transform multiplicative processes into additive ones.
