If lny + lnx = lnc, how do you find an expression for y?
1 Answer
We can manipulate the equation to get
An expression for
Explanation:
We want to isolate
We can do this by subtracting
Then, we use the following law of logarithms:
So, we have:
I'll show two ways to to solve for
Solution 1:
Remember that:
So, we can use this to get:
(in this case, our
Then, we can simplify
So we have:
Solution 2:
Another way to solve for
Just like how you can add and subtract to both sides of an equation, you can also use both sides as exponents.
Then we can use the following rule: