Section 4.3 Rules of Logarithms

Before Starting this Section, Review

  1. 1 Definition of logarithm (Section 4.2 , page 445)

  2. 2 Basic properties of logarithms (Section 4.2 , page 447)

  3. 3 Rules of exponents (Section 4.1 , page 425)

Objectives

  1. 1 Learn the rules of logarithms.

  2. 2 Estimate a large number.

  3. 3 Change the base of a logarithm.

  4. 4 Apply logarithms to growth and decay.

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