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Evaluate without using a calculator.
First we rewrite the logarithm in exponential form: Next, we ask, “To what exponent must be raised in order to get 1000?” We know
Therefore,
Given a common logarithm with the form evaluate it using a calculator.
Evaluate to four decimal places using a calculator.
Rounding to four decimal places,
The amount of energy released from one earthquake was 500 times greater than the amount of energy released from another. The equation represents this situation, where is the difference in magnitudes on the Richter Scale. To the nearest thousandth, what was the difference in magnitudes?
We begin by rewriting the exponential equation in logarithmic form.
Next we evaluate the logarithm using a calculator:
The difference in magnitudes was about
The amount of energy released from one earthquake was times greater than the amount of energy released from another. The equation represents this situation, where is the difference in magnitudes on the Richter Scale. To the nearest thousandth, what was the difference in magnitudes?
The difference in magnitudes was about
The most frequently used base for logarithms is Base logarithms are important in calculus and some scientific applications; they are called natural logarithms . The base logarithm, has its own notation,
Most values of can be found only using a calculator. The major exception is that, because the logarithm of 1 is always 0 in any base, For other natural logarithms, we can use the key that can be found on most scientific calculators. We can also find the natural logarithm of any power of using the inverse property of logarithms.
A natural logarithm is a logarithm with base We write simply as The natural logarithm of a positive number satisfies the following definition.
For
We read as, “the logarithm with base of ” or “the natural logarithm of ”
The logarithm is the exponent to which must be raised to get
Since the functions and are inverse functions, for all and for
Given a natural logarithm with the form evaluate it using a calculator.
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