A carpet manufacturer has received a special order from a contractor for precision-cut carpet. The carpet is rectangular, and th
e dimensions must be exactly 2003-04-04-00-00_files/i0170000.jpg yards wide by 2003-04-04-00-00_files/i0170001.jpg yards long. To know what the price of the carpet is, the salesman must know the total area of the carpet to be prepared for the contractor. What is the area of the carpet? (Recall that the area of a rectangle is the width multiplied by the length).
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Recall that , so
ln(<em>x</em> ¹ʹ³) + ln(2) - ln(3) = 3
Condense the left side by using sum and difference properties of logarithms:
Then
ln(2/3 <em>x</em> ¹ʹ³) = 3
Take the exponential of both sides; that is, write both sides as powers of the constant <em>e</em>. (I'm using exp(<em>x</em>) = <em>e</em> ˣ so I can write it all in one line.)
exp(ln(2/3 <em>x</em> ¹ʹ³)) = exp(3)
Now exp(ln(<em>x</em>)) = <em>x </em>for all <em>x</em>, so this simplifies to
2/3 <em>x</em> ¹ʹ³ = exp(3)
Now solve for <em>x</em>. Multiply both sides by 3/2 :
3/2 × 2/3 <em>x</em> ¹ʹ³ = 3/2 exp(3)
<em>x</em> ¹ʹ³ = 3/2 exp(3)
Raise both sides to the power of 3:
(<em>x</em> ¹ʹ³)³ = (3/2 exp(3))³
<em>x</em> = 3³/2³ exp(3×3)
<em>x</em> = 27/8 exp(9)
which is the same as
<em>x</em> = 27/8 <em>e</em> ⁹
For this case we have the following expression:
Applying distributive property to the terms within parentheses taking into account that:
We have:
We add similar terms taking into account that:
Equal signs are added and the same sign is placed.
Thus, an equivalent expression is:
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