Name Date Class

LESSON Practice B
7-5 Exponential and Logarithmic Equations and Inequalities
Solve and check.
1. 5
2x
 20 2. 12 2x  8  15 3. 2 x  6  4

4. 16 5x  64 x  7 5. 243 0.2x  81 x  5 6. 25 x  125 x – 2

     
x 2x x6
1
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Solve.
10. log 4 x  20 11. log 3 x 6  12 12. log 4  x  6  3  6
5

13. log x  log 10  14 14. log x  log 5  2 15. log  x  9   log  2x  7 

16. log  x  4   log 6  1 17. log x 2  log 25  2 18. log  x  1  2  log  5x  1 

Use a table and graph to solve.

x5
19. 2  64 20. log x 3  12 21. 2 x 3 x  1296

Solve.
22. The population of a small farming community is declining at a rate of 7%
per year. The decline can be expressed by the exponential equation
P  C  1  0.07  , where P is the population after t years and C is the current
t

population. If the population was 8,500 in 2004, when will the population be
less than 6,000?

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