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Algebra Level 2

If a = log 4 5 a = \log_4 5 and b = log 5 6 b = \log_5 6 .

State log 3 2 \log_3 2 in terms of a a and b b .

1 / (2b +1) 2ab + 1 1 / (2a +1) 1/( 2ab -1)

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Prasun Biswas
Feb 9, 2015

We will use some of the logarithm properties such as:

log a m n = n log a m log a b = log k b log k a log a ( x y ) = log a x + log a y \bullet \quad \log_a m^n=n\log_am\\ \bullet \quad \log_ab=\dfrac{\log_kb}{\log_ka}\\ \bullet \quad\log_a(xy)=\log_ax+\log_ay


Given that, a = log 4 5 , b = l o g 6 5 a=\log_45~,~b=log_65

We can write them as a = ln 5 ln 4 , b = ln 6 ln 5 a=\dfrac{\ln 5}{\ln 4}~,~b=\dfrac{\ln 6}{\ln 5}

Multiplying them, we get,

a b = ln 5 ln 4 × ln 6 ln 5 = ln 6 ln 4 = ln 3 + ln 2 2 ln 2 ab=\dfrac{\ln 5}{\ln 4}\times \dfrac{\ln 6}{\ln 5}=\dfrac{\ln 6}{\ln 4}=\dfrac{\ln 3 + \ln 2}{2\ln 2} 2 a b = 1 + ln 3 ln 2 2 a b 1 = ln 3 ln 2 1 ( 2 a b 1 ) = ln 2 ln 3 = log 3 2 \\ \implies 2ab=1+\dfrac{\ln 3}{\ln 2} \implies 2ab-1=\dfrac{\ln 3}{\ln 2}\implies \dfrac{1}{(2ab-1)}=\dfrac{\ln 2}{\ln 3}=\log_32

log 3 2 = 1 ( 2 a b 1 ) \therefore \boxed{\log_32=\dfrac{1}{(2ab-1)}}

Thiago Martinoni
Feb 9, 2015

log 4 5 = a a n d log 5 6 = b 4 a = 5 s o log 5 6 = log 4 a 6 1 a log 4 6 = b s o log 4 6 = a b log 4 2.3 = a b log 2 2 2 + log 2 2 3 = a b 1 2 ( 1 + log 2 3 ) = a b log 2 3 = 2 a b 1 log 3 2 = 1 2 a b 1 \log _{ 4 }{ 5 } =a\quad and\quad \log _{ 5 }{ 6 } =b\quad \\ { 4 }^{ a }=5\quad so\quad \log _{ 5 }{ 6 } =\\ \log _{ { 4 }^{ a } }{ 6 } \Rightarrow \\ \\ \quad \frac { 1 }{ a } \log _{ 4 }{ 6 } =b\\ \\ so\quad \log _{ 4 }{ 6 } =ab\\ \log _{ 4 }{ 2.3 } =ab\\ \log _{ { 2 }^{ 2 } }{ 2 } +\log _{ { 2 }^{ 2 } }{ 3 } =ab\\ \\ \frac { 1 }{ 2 } (1+\log _{ 2 }{ 3 } )=ab\\ \log _{ 2 }{ 3 } =2ab-1 \\ \log _{ 3 }{ 2 } =\frac { 1 }{ 2ab-1 }

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