document.write( "Question 436733: okay, my teacher told us to read our book and do problems on the properties of logarithms. i tried to read and understand but im very confused. one problem asked to use $\"+log+%28+5%2C+2+%29+\"$ ~ 0.4307 and $\"+log+%28+5%2C+3+%29+\"$ ~ 0.6826 to solve these following equations. i need to solve these problems. $\"+log+%28+5%2C+2%2F3+%29+\"$ and $\"+log+%28+5%2C+10%2F9+%29+\"$ thank you very much. \n" ); document.write( "

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adding logarithms is analogous to multiplying quantities; while subtracting logarithms is analogous to dividing quantities\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "log5(10/9) = log5[(5*2)/(3^2)] = [log5(5)] + [log5(2)] - {2[log5(3)]} \n" ); document.write( "

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