You can put this solution on YOUR website! By "In" I believe you mean "ln" which is the notation for natural logarithms. Natural
logarithms have the base e which is the symbol for a number that is approximately 2.718281828 ...
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This is a problem in which you can use a translation from logarithmic form to the equivalent
exponential form. This translation is done according to the following rule:
. is equivalent to the exponential form
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In your problem, the "ln" tells you that you are using a logarithm with the base e. Therefore,
your problem can be written:
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and by comparing this to the translation rule you can tell that b = e, C = 3, and A = x.
Substitute these values into the exponential form and you get an exponential form of:
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So you now know that and since e is approximately 2.718281828 you can get
an approximate value for x by using the equation:
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You can then use a calculator to cube 2.718281828 and you will get:
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as a pretty close approximation of the value of x.
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Remember that translation form. It's a fundamental definition for logarithms and it
comes in quite handy for solving lots of logarithmic problems.
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