document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=390652>Question 390652</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> how do i solve (log base 4 (x+3))+(log base 4 (x-3))=2? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "I have no idea how you solve\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \log_4\left(x\ +\ 3\right)\ +\ \log_4\left(x\ -\ 3\right)\ =\ 2\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I have no idea how <b><i>you</i></b> do anything that <b><i>you</i></b> do.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "However, on the outside chance that the way <b><i>I</i></b> solve it is of value to you, this is the way I would proceed:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The sum of the logs is the log of the product, so:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \log_4\left(\left(x\ +\ 3\right)\left(x\ -\ 3\right)\right)\ =\ 2\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \log_4\left(x^2\ -\ 9\right)\ =\ 2\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The definition of the logarithm function is:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ y = \log_b(x) \ \ \Rightarrow\ \ b^y = x\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "which we can use to write:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x^2\ -\ 9\ =\ 4^2\ =\ 16\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "which becomes:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x^2\ -\ 25\ =\ 0\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solve the quadratic.  Don't forget to specify both roots.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "By the way, just out of idle curiousity, is the personal pronoun, I, rendered in your post in lower case because you are lazy or because you are submissive?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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