It has been known that how exponential functions can be used to model a variety of growth and decay situations. These included the growth of populations and the decay of radioactive substances. In this lesson we consider more growth and decay problems, focusing particularly on how logarithms can be used in there solution. Population Growth [...]

Inequalities are worked in exactly the same way except that there is a change of sign when dividing or multiplying both sides of the inequality by a negative number. \begin{array}{|c|c|c|} \hline \log_{2}{3}=1.6>0 & \log_{5}{3}=0.7>0 & \log_{10}{3}=0.5>0 \\ \hline \log_{2}{2}=1>0 & \log_{5}{2}=0.4>0 & \log_{10}{2}=0.3>0 \\ \hline \log_{2}{1}=0 & \log_{5}{1}=0 & \log_{10}{1}=0 \\ \hline \log_{2}{0.5}=-1 \log_{10}{9} \\ [...]

We can find solutions to simple exponential equations where we could make equal bases and then equate exponents (indices). For example, $2^{x}=8$ can be written as $2^x = 2^3$. Therefore the solution is $x=3$. However, it is not always easy to make the bases the same such as $2^x=5$. In these situations we use $\textit{logarithms}$ [...]