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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Can Someone Please help me expand two calculus equations

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@hartnn

hartnn (hartnn):

what did you try? you'd just have to know log rules for that

OpenStudy (anonymous):

for the fisrt one I got \[2\log(x)+\log(y)-\log(1000)-\frac{ 1 }{ 3 }\log(z+1) \]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I dont even know where to start on the second one

hartnn (hartnn):

the first one is correct, just that log 1000 can be written as log 10^3 = 3 log 10 = 3

OpenStudy (anonymous):

how do I do the second one

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so far the farthest I got on the second one was this much\[\frac{ 1 }{ 2 }\ln(\frac{ y }{ (z^2)e^-x )})\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

*e^-x

hartnn (hartnn):

yeah now use the property that log (A/B) = log A - log B

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so can you show me that in this equation, I dont exactly understand that

hartnn (hartnn):

\(\Large \ln \dfrac{y}{z^2e^{-x}} = \ln y - \ln (z^2 e^{-x})\) makes sense?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yeah

OpenStudy (anonymous):

can we simplify it more

OpenStudy (anonymous):

or is that the final answer

hartnn (hartnn):

sure, for 2nd term we can use \(\log AB = \log A + \log B\)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

could you show me that in equation form as well

hartnn (hartnn):

\(\large \log z^2 e^{-x} = \log z^2 + \log e^{-x}\) this can be simplified even more

hartnn (hartnn):

\(\log x^n = n \log x \\ \log z^2 = 2 \log z\)

hartnn (hartnn):

\(\Large \log e^{-x} = -x \log e = -x \\ (as, \ln e = 1)\)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

are you sure thats the answer

OpenStudy (anonymous):

because on a similar problem my intructor solved it like this:

OpenStudy (anonymous):

hartnn (hartnn):

those are the steps, se if you get this as the final answer: \(\Large \dfrac{1}{2}[\log y - 2 \log z -x]\)

hartnn (hartnn):

yup we followed same type of steps

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so thats the final answer above

hartnn (hartnn):

well, if you want, you can distribute the 1/2 (like your prof distributed 1/3)

hartnn (hartnn):

1/2 log y -log z -x/2

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok sweet

OpenStudy (anonymous):

thanks a bunch

hartnn (hartnn):

welcome ^_^ oh and since you're new here, \(\huge \color{red}{\text{Welcome to Open Study}}\ddot\smile\)

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