C2- Worksheet

Chapter-3 Logarithms

1.Find, giving your answer to 3 significant figures where appropriate, the value of for which a) 3 = 5 b) 2 2 + 1 2 = 2 (Jan 2005) 3. (a) Write down the value of 636. (b) Express 2 3 + 11 as a single logarithm to base a. (June 2006)

2. Solve a) 5 = 8, giving your answer to 3 significant figures, b) 2 + 1 2 = 2 7. (June 2005) 4. Solve the equation, 5 = 17, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Jan 2007) 6. Given that a and b are positive constants, solve the simultaneous equations a = 3b, 3 + 3 = 2 Give your answers as exact numbers. (Jan 2008) 8. Given that 0 <x < 4 and 5 4 25 = 1 find the value of x. (Jan 2009) 10. (a) Find the positive value of x such that 64 = 2 (b) Solve for x 2 11 6 = 22 1 + 3 (Jan 2010)

5.(a) Find, to 3 significant figures, the value of x for which 8 = 0.8 (b) Solve the equation 23 3 7 = 1 (June 2007) 7.(a) Find, to 3 significant figures, the value of x for which 5 = 7. (b) Solve the equation 52 12 5 + 35 = 0. (June 2008) 9. (a) Find the value of y such that 2 = 3 (b) Find the values of x such that
2 32+2 16 2

= 2

(June 2009)

11. (a) Given that 23 5 3 2 13 = 1,

show that 2 16 + 64 = 0. (b) Hence, or otherwise, solve 2 3 5 3 2 13 = 1 (June 2010)

12.(a) Sketch the graph of = 7 , showing the coordinates of any points at which the graph crosses the axes.
(b) Solve the equation 72 4 7 + 3 = 0 giving your answers to 2 decimal places where appropriate. (Jan 2011)

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C2- Worksheet
Chapter-3 Logarithms

13. Find, giving your answer to 3 significant figures where appropriate, the value of x for which (a) 5 = 10 (b) 3 2 = 1
14. Given that = 32 ,

ANSWERS

(June 2011)

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(a) Show that 3 = 1 + 23 (b) Hence, or otherwise, solve the equation 1 + 23 = 3 28 9 (Jan 2012) 15. Find the values of such that 23 3 2 = 2 (June 2012) 16.Given that 22 + 15 2 = 6 (a) Show that 2 34 + 225 = 0 (b) Hence, or otherwise, solve the equation 22 + 15 2 = 6 (Jan 2013)

a) 1.46 a) 1.29 a) 2 = 1.76 a) = 0.107 = 3 3 , = 3 a) = 1.21 4 = 5 = 8 x= 8 b) x=8 a)

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b) 0.5 1 b) 6 b) 99 b)21

b) = 1 , = 1.2
b) = 8 , = 8 b) x= 1.5 b) x= 0.5645
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13 a) = 1.43 14 b) = 3 , = 9 15 = 3, = 6 16 b) = 9 , = 25
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b) = 2 3 2.3

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