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Revision as of 23:49, 22 March 2019
Problem 6
In a Martian civilization, all logarithms whose bases are not specified as assumed to be base , for some fixed
. A Martian student writes down
and finds that this system of equations has a single real number solution
. Find
.
Solution 1
Using change of base on the second equation to base b,
Substituting this into the
of the first equation,
We can manipulate this equation to be able to substitute a couple more times:
However, since we found that ,
is also equal to
. Equating these,
Solution 2
We start by simplifying the first equation to
Next, we simplify the second equation to
Substituting this into the first equation gives
Plugging this into
gives
-ktong
Solution 3
Apply change of base to to yield:
which can be rearranged as:
Apply log properties to
to yield:
Substituting
into the equation
yields:
So
Substituting this back in to
yields
So,
-Ghazt2002
See Also
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