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The document contains a worksheet on logarithmic functions with 11 problems covering evaluating logarithmic expressions, writing expressions in logarithmic and exponential form, solving logarithmic equations, graphing logarithmic functions, and analyzing their properties. The problems increase in difficulty and cover foundational skills in working with logarithmic functions.

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Exercises LogarithmicFunction

The document contains a worksheet on logarithmic functions with 11 problems covering evaluating logarithmic expressions, writing expressions in logarithmic and exponential form, solving logarithmic equations, graphing logarithmic functions, and analyzing their properties. The problems increase in difficulty and cover foundational skills in working with logarithmic functions.

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Vanier College Sec V Mathematics

Department of Mathematics 201-015-50

Worksheet: Logarithmic Function


1. Find the value of y.
1
(1) log5 25 = y (2) log3 1 = y (3) log16 4 = y (4) log2 =y
8
1 1
(5) log5 1 = y (6) log2 8 = y (7) log7 =y (8) log3 =y
7 9
1 1 1
(9) logy 32 = 5 (10) log9 y = (11) log4 =y (12) log9 =y
2 8 81

2. Evaluate.

(1) log3 1 (2) log4 4 (3) log7 73 (4) blogb 3 (3) log25 53 (4) 16log4 8

3. Write the following expressions in terms of logs of x, y and z.


3 2
p p
x y x 3 y2
(1) log x2 y (2) log (3) log (4) log xyz
z z4
✓ ◆2
x x 1 p
(5) log (6) log (7) log (xy) 3 (8) log x z
yz y
p r rp r
3
x 4 x3 y 2 x xy 2
(9) log p (10) log (11) log x (12) log
3 yz z4 z z8
4. Write the following equalities in exponential form.
1
(1) log3 81 = 4 (2) log7 7 = 1 (3) log 1 =3 (4) log3 1 = 0
2 8
1 1 1
(5) log4 = 3 (6) log6 = 2 (7) logx y = z (8) logm n =
64 36 2

5. Write the following equalities in logarithmic form.


1 1
(1) 82 = 64 (2) 103 = 10000 (3) 4 2
= (4) 3 4
=
16 81
✓ ◆ 5 ✓ ◆ 3
1 1 p
(5) = 32 (6) = 27 (7) x2z = y (8) x=y
2 3

6. True or False?
✓ ◆
x
(1) log = log x 3 log y (2) log(a b) = log a log b (3) log xk = k · log x
y3

log a
(4) (log a)(log b) = log(a + b) (5) = log(a b) (6) (ln a)k = k · ln a
log b
✓ ◆
1
(7) loga aa = a (8) ln = ln x (9) lnpx xk = 2k
x

7. Solve the following logarithmic equations.

(1) ln x = 3 (2) log(3x 2) = 2

(3) 2 log x = log 2 + log(3x 4) (4) log x + log(x 1) = log(4x)

(5) log3 (x + 25) log3 (x 1) = 3 (6) log9 (x 5) + log9 (x + 3) = 1

(7) log x + log(x 3) = 1 (8) log2 (x 2) + log2 (x + 1) = 2


8. Prove the following statements.
p p
(1) logpb x = 2 logb x (2) log p1 x= logb x (3) logb4 x2 = logb x
b

9. Given that log 2 = x, log 3 = y and log 7 = z, express the following expressions
in terms of x, y, and z.
14
(1) log 12 (2) log 200 (3) log (4) log 0.3
3
6000
(5) log 1.5 (6) log 10.5 (7) log 15 (8) log
7

10. Solve the following equations.

(1) 3x 2 = 12 (2) 31 x
=2

(3) 4x = 5x+1 (4) 61 x


= 10x

10
(5) 32x+1 = 2x 2
(6) x
=2
1+e

(7) 52x 5x 12 = 0 (8) e2x 2ex = 15

11. Draw the graph of each of the following logarithmic functions, and analyze each
of them completely.

(1) f (x) = log x (2) f (x) = log x

(3) f (x) = log(x 3) (4) f (x) = 2 log3 (3 x)

1
(5) f (x) = ln(x + 1) (6) f (x) = 2 ln (x + 3)
2

(7) f (x) = ln(2x + 4) (8) f (x) = 2 ln( 3x + 6)

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