Chen has 17CDs. She gives 2 to her brother and buys 4 more. Her brother gives her 1 and she gives 3 to her best friend. How many
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Take the logarithm of both sides. The base of the logarithm doesn't matter.
Drop the exponents:
Expand the right side:
Move the terms containing <em>x</em> to the left side and factor out <em>x</em> :
Solve for <em>x</em> by dividing boths ides by 5 log(4) - log(3) :
You can stop there, or continue simplifying the solution by using properties of logarithms:
You can condense the solution further using the change-of-base identity,