Vanier College Sec V Mathematics
Department of Mathematics 201-015-50
Worksheet: Logarithmic Function
1. Find the value of y.
1
(1) log5 25 = y (2) log3 1 = y (3) log16 4 = y (4) log2 =y
8
1 1
(5) log5 1 = y (6) log2 8 = y (7) log7 =y (8) log3 =y
7 9
1 1 1
(9) logy 32 = 5 (10) log9 y = − (11) log4 =y (12) log9 =y
2 8 81
2. Evaluate.
(1) log3 1 (2) log4 4 (3) log7 73 (4) blogb 3 (3) log25 53 (4) 16log4 8
3. Write the following expressions in terms of logs of x, y and z.
3 2
√ p
x y x 3 y2
(1) log x2 y (2) log (3) log (4) log xyz
z z4
2
x x 1 √
(5) log (6) log (7) log (xy) 3 (8) log x z
yz y
√ r r√ r
3
x 4 x3 y 2 x xy 2
(9) log √ (10) log (11) log x (12) log
3 yz z4 z z8
4. Write the following equalities in exponential form.
1
(1) log3 81 = 4 (2) log7 7 = 1 (3) log 1 =3 (4) log3 1 = 0
2 8
1 1 1
(5) log4 = −3 (6) log6 = −2 (7) logx y = z (8) logm n =
64 36 2
5. Write the following equalities in logarithmic form.
1 1
(1) 82 = 64 (2) 103 = 10000 (3) 4−2 = (4) 3−4 =
16 81
−5 −3
1 1 √
(5) = 32 (6) = 27 (7) x2z = y (8) x=y
2 3
6. True or False?
x
(1) log = log x − 3 log y (2) log(a − b) = log a − log b (3) log xk = k · log x
y3
log a
(4) (log a)(log b) = log(a + b) (5) = log(a − b) (6) (ln a)k = k · ln a
log b
1
(7) loga aa = a (8) − ln = ln x (9) ln√x xk = 2k
x
7. Solve the following logarithmic equations.
(1) ln x = −3 (2) log(3x − 2) = 2
(3) 2 log x = log 2 + log(3x − 4) (4) log x + log(x − 1) = log(4x)
(5) log3 (x + 25) − log3 (x − 1) = 3 (6) log9 (x − 5) + log9 (x + 3) = 1
(7) log x + log(x − 3) = 1 (8) log2 (x − 2) + log2 (x + 1) = 2