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Name______________________________________________
Module Test

1. Which expression is equivalent to 7. The number of headphones sold, S, after

t years can be modeled by the function
S(t) = 175,000 − 175,000e−rt. If 70,000
headphones were sold in the first 4 years,
what is the rate r?

r=
2. Which expression is equivalent to

r=−

r = ln

3. Which expression is equivalent to r = −ln

8. A scientist studies a strain of bacteria. The

population of the bacteria doubles every 4 hours.
If there are 800 bacteria after 8 hours, how long
will it take until there are 52,428,800 bacteria?
4. Which expression is equivalent to ?
3 days
16 days
18 days
64 days

5. Which expression is equivalent to 7 ln 4 − 2 ln 7?

9. Paper subscriptions of a newspaper have been
declining at an annual rate of 7%. If there are
ln 2
currently 125,000 paper subscriptions for the
newspaper, how long ago, to the nearest tenth of
ln 14 a year, were there 193,200 paper subscriptions?
0.6 year

6. Which equation shows ln P = ln 50 − 0.7 year

solved for t? 6.0 years

6.4 years
t = ln − 250

t = ln − 250 10. What is a solution to = 216?

x = _______________
t = 250 ln

t = 250 ln

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Module Test

17. What is a solution to 9e4x = 54 to the nearest

11. The function M = log relates the
hundredth?
magnitude of an earthquake, M, to the amount
x = _______________
of energy, E, in ergs, released by the earthquake.
How much energy in ergs is released by an
earthquake of magnitude 4.8? 18. The graph of the function f (x) = 4x − 8 − 2
is shown.

12. A retirement account offers an 8% annual interest

rate compounded monthly. If an account starts
with $5,500, how long, to the nearest hundredth
of a year, will it take until the account balance
triples?

13. What is a solution to (x − 8) = 5? Part A

Which x-interval contains a solution to the

x = _______________
equation 4x − 8 − 2 = log(1,000)?

x≤0 5 < x ≤ 10
14. What is a solution to log(12x2 − 52x) = 2 + log 4?
x = _______________ 0<x≤5 x > 10

15. What is a solution to
(x2 − 2x + 1) =
x = _______________
Part B
(−3x + 7)? What is a solution to the equation
4x − 8 − 2 = log(1,000) to the nearest hundredth?
x = _______________

16. What is a solution to

x = _______________

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