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| Question 28781:  Hi, I have been going over this more time then you know. I need to use the laws of logarithms to express logarithm in base 2 of 6 minus logarithm in base 2 of 3 plus 2logarithm in base of 2 sqrt 8.
 This is what I have,
 Original equation
 = logarithm in base 2 of 6 - log in base of 2 of 3 + log in base of 2 of 8^1/2
 =                          SAME                    + log in base of 2 of 2^3 (base of two and 2 to the power of cancel out)
 =Same as top + log3
 =log in base of 2(6)(3) - log3
 =log in base of 2 =  (18/3)
 log2 = 6
 I really hope this makes sense, because I'd really appreciate help. I'm not sure if I did this right, it kind of seems like I haven't so thats why I'm here double checking. Thank you for your time.
 Answer by longjonsilver(2297)
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! all my log terms here are to base 2, i just omit that in the writing, to make it clearer... 
 log6 - log3 + log8^(1/2)
 log(2*3) - log3 + (1/2)log8
 log(2*3) - log3 + (1/2)log2^3
 log(2*3) - log3 + (3/2)log2
 log(2) + log(3) - log3 + (3/2)log2
 
 now log[base2](2) = 1
 
 so, we get
 1 + log(3) - log3 + (3/2)(1)
 1 + (3/2)
 5/2
 
 jon.
 
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