How do you expand this logarithm?

log_(9)(zsqrtx*y)

2 Answers
Nov 26, 2016

This is the best I got...

Explanation:

Try to use the product of the arguments to change it into a sum of logs as:
log_9(zsqrt(x)*y)=log_9(z*sqrt(x))+log_9(y)= and again:
=log_9(z)+log_9(sqrt(x))+log_9(y)

Nov 27, 2016

log_9sqrtx=log_9x^(1/2)=1/2log_9x