SOLUTION: If x/y +y/x =3, prove that log(x-y)=1/3(log x + log y)

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Question 1176050: If x/y +y/x =3, prove that log(x-y)=1/3(log x + log y)
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Nice problem... but you typed the equation we were supposed to prove incorrectly.







<-- I did that because I know, because of what we are trying to prove, that I somehow need to get from to









The factor is 1/2, not 1/3....


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