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CHAPTER 4:
STRATEGIES FOR SOLVING
EXPONENTIAL AND EXPONENTIAL AND LOGARITHMIC
LOGARITHMIC EQUATIONS EQUATION
1. Rewrite the original equation in a
form that allows the use of the
Recall Exponential Properties One – to One Properties of
exponential or logarithmic
functions.
2. Rewrite an exponential equation
in logarithmic form and apply the
Inverse Property of logarithmic
function.
3. Rewrite a logarithmic equation in
exponential form and apply the
Inverse Property of exponential
function.
Example:
1. e-x2 = e-3x- 4

PROPERTIES OF LOGARITHM

2. 3(2x) = 42

3. ex + 5 = 60
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4. 2(33t – 5) – 4 - 11 3. log6 (3x – 14) – log6 5 = log6 (2x)

4. 2 log5 3x = 4

SOLVING LOGARITHMIC EQUATION

To solve a logarithmic equation, you
can write it in exponential form.
Example:
1. In x = 3 5. log (5x) + log (x – 1) = 2

2. log3 (5x – 1) = log3 (x + 7)

PROGRESSION
Arithmetic Progression
An Arithmetic progression is a
sequence in which each term after the first is
obtained by adding the same fixed number,
called the common difference, to the
preceding term.
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hourly consumption for each car, how long

will the fuel provision last if 8 cars withdraw
from the race every hour after the first?
Where: 9. Find the sum of all odd integers between
a1 = first term 100 and 1000.
an = nth term
10. If the fifth term in arithmetic progression
n = number of terms
d = common difference is 17 and 3rd term is 10, what is the 8th
Sn = sum of first n terms term?

Arithmetic means – the term between any

two terms of an arithmetic progression. GEOMETRIC PROGRESSION
Harmonic Progression – The reciprocal of A Geometric progression is a
Arithmetic Progression sequence in which each term after the first is
obtained by multiplying the same fixed
Exercises No. 15:
number, called the common ratio, by the
1. The first term of an arithmetic preceding term.
progression is 7 and the 17th term is 89.
Find the 50th term.
2. There are 20 arithmetic means between
-38 and 3. Find the common difference.
3. Find the sum of the first 90 terms of the
arithmetic progression -5, 3, 11, . . .
4. Find the 25th term of the arithmetic
progression 29, 16, 3, . . .
5. How many numbers between 20 and
1,056 are exactly divisible by 14?
Where:
6. In a pile of logs, each layer contains one
a1 = first term
more log than the layer above and the top
contains just one log. If there are 105 in an = nth term
the pile, how many layers are there?
n = number of terms
7. Find the 30th term of arithmetic
progression 4, 7, 10 …. r = common ratio

8. In a racing contest, there are 240 cars Sn = sum of first n term

which will have provisions that will last
for15 hours. Assuming constant
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Exercises No.16:
1. Find the 16th term of the geometric
progression 2, 6, 8, . . .
2. Find the 9th term of the geometric
progression 72, -12, 2, . . .
3. The first term of a geometric
progression is 375 and the fourth
term is 192. Find the common ratio.
4. There are 20 geometric means
between 512 and 36. Find the
common ratio.
5. The first term of a geometric
progression is 256 and the last term
is 6, 561. If the sum of all the terms is
19, 171 find the number of terms.
6. Find the sum of the first 10 terms of
the geometric progression 2, 4, 8, 16,
….
7. There are 4 geometric means
between 3 and 729. Find the fourth
term of the geometric progression
8. The sum of the term in geometric
progression is 1820. How many
terms are there if the first term is 5,
the second term is 15 and the third
term is 45?
9. The fourth term of geometric
progression is 216, and the 6th term
is 1944, find the 8th term.
10. A body dropped from a height fall
16m, during the first second, 48m, in
the next second; 144m on the third
second and so on. Find how far the
body falls during the 7th second.