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This document provides a worksheet with problems involving logarithmic and exponential equations. It includes questions about the difference between natural and common logarithms, the inverses of exponentials and logarithms, solving logarithmic equations, and evaluating logarithmic expressions without a calculator. The goal is to build understanding of logarithmic functions and their properties through working multiple practice problems.

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Solving Logarithmic and Exponential Equations Worksheet Newer

This document provides a worksheet with problems involving logarithmic and exponential equations. It includes questions about the difference between natural and common logarithms, the inverses of exponentials and logarithms, solving logarithmic equations, and evaluating logarithmic expressions without a calculator. The goal is to build understanding of logarithmic functions and their properties through working multiple practice problems.

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Solving Logarithmic and Exponential Equations Worksheet

Answer the following:


1) What is the difference between a natural logarithm and a common logarithm?
2) What is the inverse of an exponential?
3) What is the inverse of a logarithm?
4) On a study by psychologists Bornstein and Bornstein, it was found that the average walking speed s, in
feet per second, of a person living in a city of population P, in thousands, is given by the function
s = 0.05 + 0.37 ln P .The average walking speed for a person in Hartford, Connecticut is 1.85 feet per
second. How many thousand people live there?
Write each expression as a single logarithm.
5) ln 16 − ln 8 8) 4 ln x + 3 ln y
6) 3 ln 3 + ln 9 1
9) ln 9 − ln 3 + ln x
7) ln z − 3 ln x 2
Evaluate the following without a calculator.
10) ln e 1
14) log 105
12) ln e 2
11) ln e10 15) ln 1
13) 3 ⋅ ln e
Solve the following logarithmic equations.

16) 2 x = 3 31) 3 ⋅ ln (2 x ) = 12 46) 3 ⋅ e x+5 = 27


17) 5 x = 81.2 32) 252 x+1 = 144 47) 3 ⋅ e 4 x = 27
18) 3 x = 100 33) 23 x−4 = 5 48) 5 ⋅ e 2 x−3 − 4 = 16
19) − 5 + 3 x = 40 34) 4 ⋅ ln (3 x ) = 8 49) 3 ⋅ 2 x + 8 = 25
20) 9 2 x = 66 35) log 2 ( x + 20 ) = 3 50) 6 ⋅ ln x = 2
21) 3 x + 1 = 5 36) log x − log 5 = 2 51) 7 ⋅ e 5 x+8 = 21
22) 32 x + 1 = 5 37) log x − 2 ⋅ log 5 = 1 52) e x+6 − 5 = 1
23) 32 x−1 + 1 = 5 38) log 5 + log x = 2 53) 7 ⋅ ln (2 x + 5) = 8
24) log 3 ( x − 1) = 2 39) ln x − 2 ⋅ ln 5 = 4 54) ln (2 x − 1) = 4
2

25) − 3 + 4 2 x = 40 40) 3 ⋅ log(2 x + 50 ) = 6 55) 3 − 4 ⋅ ln (8 x − 1) = 12


41) log(2 x + 50 ) = 6
x+4
26) e = 10 3
56) 3 log x − log x = 2
27) 5 ⋅ e = 50 42) log(3x − 2 ) = 4
2x
57) − 2 + log 3 x − log 3 4 = 1
28) log 5 ( x + 4) = 2 43) log 2 x − log 2 4 = 3 58) e ln 3 x = 18
29) 14 x +1 = 36 44) log 2 4 + log 2 x = 3 59) log 3 2 + log 3 x − log 3 4 = 1
x −2
30) 12 = 20 45) ln (3 x − 2 ) = 4
Answer the following without a calculator in order to understand log x x a .

60) Evaluate log 5 5 .

61) Evaluate log 7 7 .

62) Evaluate log 10 .


63) Evaluate ln e .
64) Evaluate ln e 2 .
65) Evaluate ln e e .
66) Evaluate log 5 5 2 .

67) Evaluate log 5 5 5 .

68) Evaluate log 5 5100 .

69) What rule can you form about evaluating log x x a ?

Write true or false for each statement. Justify your answer.

70) log 2 4 + log 2 8 = 5


71) log 3 8 = 2

72) log 2 2 + log 2 4 = 3

73) log 3 8 = 3 ⋅ log 3 2

74) ln 4 = log 4

75) log 2 12 − log 2 3 = log 2 9

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