Condensing and Expanding
Solve For X
Half Life
Log=Log
100

9 log c+ 8 log y

log(c9y8)

100

log7(8x)+2 log7(8)=2

x=49/512

100

Element X decays radioactively with a half life of 12 minutes. If there are 270 grams of Element X, how long, to the nearest tenth of a minute, would it take the element to decay to 10 grams?

57.1

100

log2(x+2)+log2(3)=log2(27)

x=7

200

log x5/y3

5 log x - 3 log y

200

log2(8x)-3 log2(6)=0

x=27

200

Element X decays radioactively with a half life of 9 minutes. If there are 890 grams of Element X, how long, to the nearest tenth of a minute, would it take the element to decay to 238 grams?

17.1

200

log3(x)+log3(x-2)=log3(x+10)

x=5

300

log x2/y7

2 log x - 7 log y

300

log6(4x)+ log6(9)=3

x=6

300

The bird fossil sample was found to have 1.79 * 10-9 grams of carbon-14. It is estimated it originally had contained 3.32 * 10-9 the halflife of this is 5730 what is the age of this fossil sample?

age:5107

300

log5(x+2)-log5(x)=log5(2x-1)-log5(3x-12)

x=8

400

log y4x2/z

4 log y + 2 log x - log z

400

log7(5x)- 3 log7(2)=0

x=8/5

400

the sample of a piece of slab was found to have lost 36.5% of its original carbon-14 what is the age of this ample of slab if its half life is 5730

age:3754

400

1/2log(x4)-log(2x-1)=log(x2)+log(2)

x=3/4

500

log y9c5x8/z4

9 log y + 5 log c + 8 log x - 4 log z

500

log3(6x)+log3(2)=3

x=9/4

500

A sample of a piece of tissue was found to have 0.0076 grams of carbon-14. It is estimated it origanally would have contained 0.0145 grams of carbon-14 what is the age of this piece of tissue if the half life is 5730?

5340

500

In(3x)=In(4x-1)+In(1-x)

x=1/2