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put this solution on YOUR website!Given:
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Note that if you solve for y, the answer is equal to

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One way to solve this equation is to translate it to the exponential form of the logarithm.
The translation uses the relationship that:
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is equivalent to the exponential form

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By comparing the log form in the translation to the log form you were given in this problem
you can see that:
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and

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Substituting the values on the right side for b, A, and y in the exponential form you
get:
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Looking at this equation, you can see that to make the left side equal to the right side
the exponents have to be equal. In other words, y has to be 9 for the two sides to be
equal. And since y is equal to

, then you can say that

equals 9.
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Hope this helps you to understand the problem.
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