document.write( "Question 1094663: log(x+14)+log(x+2)=6
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Algebra.Com's Answer #709240 by Edwin McCravy(20060) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "Use the principle:  to write\r\n" );
document.write( "the left side as a single logarithm:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use the principle:  to put in the understood\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use the principle that the logarithm equation  is equivalent\r\n" );
document.write( "to the exponential equation  to rewrite the above logatithm\r\n" );
document.write( "equation as an exponential equation:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Substitute a=1, b=16, and c=-999972 in the quadratic formula:\r\n" );
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document.write( "We discard the negative answer since logarithms of negative\r\n" );
document.write( "numbers are not real.  So the only solution is\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's approximately 992.0179998\r\n" );
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