document.write( "Question 975916: Use the properties of logarithms to write the expression as a single logarithm.\r
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document.write( "\"4%2Alog%28c%2C%282%2Ax%5E3%29%29\"\"%22%22-%22%22\"\"expr%281%2F5%29log%28c%2C%282x%2B5%29%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use the rule \"A%2Alog%28B%2CC%29+=+log%28B%2CC%5EA%29\" to change the coefficients\r\n" );
document.write( "of the logs to exponents of what the logs are taken of:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Distribute the outer 4 exponent in the first term to the\r\n" );
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document.write( "[WARNING: do NOT try to distribute the 1/5 exponent in \r\n" );
document.write( "the second term the same way because what's inside the \r\n" );
document.write( "parentheses in the second term are ADDED, not\r\n" );
document.write( "MULTIPLIED as they are on the first term.]\r\n" );
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document.write( "Write 24 as 16 in the first term and the fractional exponent \"1%2F5\" as \r\n" );
document.write( "a 5th root in the second term:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use the rule \"log%28B%2CA%29-log%28B%2CC%29=log%28B%2C%28A%2FC%29%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"log%28c%2C%28+%2816x%5E12%29%2Froot%285%2C2x%2B5%29+%29%29\" \r\n" );
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