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Test - 1 Exponents and Logs

1. The document presents 8 problems involving exponential and logarithmic functions. The problems cover solving logarithmic equations, evaluating logarithmic functions, finding inverse functions, modeling population growth with exponential functions, properties of logarithms, and analyzing graphs of exponential and logarithmic functions. 2. Problem 1 has 4 parts asking to solve various logarithmic equations. Problem 2 asks to solve a logarithmic equation for a variable. Problem 3 involves finding an inverse function and evaluating it. 3. Problem 4 models population growth over time using an exponential function and asks to calculate populations at different years. Problems 5-8 continue exploring properties and applications of logarithmic and exponential functions and their inverses and graphs.

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Test - 1 Exponents and Logs

1. The document presents 8 problems involving exponential and logarithmic functions. The problems cover solving logarithmic equations, evaluating logarithmic functions, finding inverse functions, modeling population growth with exponential functions, properties of logarithms, and analyzing graphs of exponential and logarithmic functions. 2. Problem 1 has 4 parts asking to solve various logarithmic equations. Problem 2 asks to solve a logarithmic equation for a variable. Problem 3 involves finding an inverse function and evaluating it. 3. Problem 4 models population growth over time using an exponential function and asks to calculate populations at different years. Problems 5-8 continue exploring properties and applications of logarithmic and exponential functions and their inverses and graphs.

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Time : 1 Hour 30 mins

Calculator is allowed from Q.3 onwards


Exponential and Logarithms Total Marks : 58

1. Solve the following equations.

(a) logx 49 = 2
(3)

(b) log2 8 = x
(2)

1
(c) log25 x = 
2
(3)

(d) log2 x + log2(x – 7) = 3


(5)
(Total 13 marks)

2. Solve log2x + log2(x – 2) = 3, for x > 2.


(Total 7 marks)

3. Let f(x) = k log2 x.

(a) Given that f–1(1) = 8, find the value of k.


(3)

2
(b) Find f–1   .
3
(4)
(Total 7 marks)

4. The population of a city at the end of 1972 was 250 000. The population increases by 1.3 per year.

(a) Write down the population at the end of 1973.

(b) Find the population at the end of 2002.


(Total 6 marks)

1
5. Let f(x) = log3 x , for x > 0.

(a) Show that f–1(x) = 32x.


(2)

(b) Write down the range of f–1.


(1)

Let g(x) = log3 x, for x > 0.

(c) Find the value of (f –1 ° g)(2), giving your answer as an integer.


(4)
(Total 7 marks)

6. The number of bacteria, n, in a dish, after t minutes is given by n = 800e013t.

(a) Find the value of n when t = 0.


(2)

(b) Find the rate at which n is increasing when t = 15.


(2)

(c) After k minutes, the rate of increase in n is greater than 10 000 bacteria per minute. Find the least
value of k, where k  .
(4)
(Total 8 marks)

7. Let f(x) = Aekx + 3. Part of the graph of f is shown below.

The y-intercept is at (0, 13).

2
(a) Show that A =10.
(2)

(b) Given that f(15) = 3.49 (correct to 3 significant figures), find the value of k.
(3)

(c) (i) Using your value of k, find f′(x).

(ii) Hence, explain why f is a decreasing function.

(iii) Write down the equation of the horizontal asymptote of the graph f.
(5)

(Total 10 marks)

8. Let f(x) = 3 ln x and g(x) = ln 5x3.

(a) Express g(x) in the form f(x) + ln a, where a  +


.
(4)

(b) The graph of g is a transformation of the graph of f. Give a full geometric description of this
transformation.
(3)
(Total 7 marks)

x
9. Let f(x) = log3 + log3 16 – log3 4, for x > 0.
2

(a) Show that f(x) = log3 2x.


(2)

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