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Edexcel GCE

Core Mathematics C2
Advanced Subsidiary

Logarithms
Materials required for examination Items included with question papers
Mathematical Formulae (Pink or Green) Nil

Advice to Candidates
You must ensure that your answers to parts of questions are clearly labelled.
You must show sufficient working to make your methods clear to the Examiner.
Answers without working may not gain full credit.
1. Solve

(a) 5x = 8, giving your answer to 3 significant figures,


(3)
(b) log 2 (x + 1) – log 2 x = log 2 7.
(3)

2. Solve the equation 5x = 17, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.


(3)

3. (a) Find, to 3 significant figures, the value of x for which 5x = 7.


(2)
(b) Solve the equation 52x – 12(5x) + 35 = 0.
(4)

2
4. (i) Write down the value of log6 36.
(1)
(ii) Express 2 loga 3 + loga 11 as a single logarithm to base a.
(3)

5. (a) Find, to 3 significant figures, the value of x for which 8x = 0.8.


(2)
(b) Solve the equation

2 log3 x – log3 7x = 1.
(4)

3
6. Given that a and b are positive constants, solve the simultaneous equations

a = 3b,

log3 a + log3 b = 2.

Give your answers as exact numbers.


(6)

7. (a) Find the value of y such that

log 2 y = –3.
(2)
(b) Find the values of x such that
log 2 32 + log 2 16
= log 2 x .
log 2 x
(5)

4
8. Given that 0 < x < 4 and

log5 (4 – x) – 2 log5 x = 1,

find the value of x.

(6)

9. Find, giving your answer to 3 significant figures where appropriate, the value of x for which

(a) 3x = 5,
(3)
(b) log2 (2x + 1) – log2 x = 2.

(4)

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