I think you meant CUBE root, not SQUARE root, so use "root(3,5-x)" not sqrt.That's the log of a quotient, so we use Those are both logs of products, so we use on the first log: Now we must be careful to put a big parentheses around the second log's break-up since it's preceded by a minus: Now we can remove that big parentheses by changing the signs of the terms inside the big parentheses: Now we write the cube root as the 1/3 power: Now we use and also log(10) = 1: Edwin