Chapter

5 Exam Part I: Calculators Required

Growth and Decay
For each word problem, write out your full set-up for the equation and provide a final
numerical solution, using your calculator when necessary. Please round all final
answers to two decimal places.

1. $200 is invested in a bank account at a rate of 12%. How much money will be
in the account at the end of 5 years if
a. The interest is compounded weekly (assume 52 weeks in a year)
b. The interest is compounded continuously

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= $.

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2. $3750 is invested in a bank account at some annual rate, compounded
annually, for ten years. At the end of this time frame, you find that you have
tripled your money. What was the interest rate on this account?

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3. Molybdenum-93 has a half-life of 4000 years. How long does it take a sample
of Molybdenum-93 to be reduced to 10% of its original mass?

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Part I: _______ /

Part II: ________ /

Total: _________ /

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4. A bacterial colony triples every 4 days. The population is ! bacteria. What
will the population () be
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Challenge

3 days later?

weeks later?

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hours later?

5.
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Calculate log ! 500 to two

Prove the change-of-base

decimal places of precision.

formula for logarithms.

Show the critical step you

must perform before
entering this into most
calculators.


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Challenge

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Chapter 5 Exam Part II: No calculators

Section I: Exponents and Exponential Equations
Simplify
1.
a.

!"! ! !!"! !
!! !!

b.

!!
!!

!
!

= 2

!!

Solve

2. If and () are exponential equations of the form !
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Challenge

0 = 5 and 1 = 40;

2 = 10 and 4 = 250,

find the values of and .

find the values of and .

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! = 250

= =

! = 10
= =
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(XC) Let = () (or ()) for your solution above. Solve this equation for
in terms of .

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Section II: Logarithms

3.
log 0.01 =
=

log ! 0.2 =

log ! 3 =

4. Given that ln 10 2.3026, find:
a. ln 0.1

b. ln 100

5. (You may leave answers in terms of if necessary)
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ln || = 2
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Challenge
log log

= 1

= =

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6.
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Challenge

Write each of the first two

Prove the laws of logarithms that you

expressions as a rational number

would use for the following

or as a single logarithm

expressions (you may use the laws of

a. log 8 + log 5 2 log 2

exponents to do so)

b. ln 2 + ln 6 ! ln 9
c. Write in terms of log , log ,
log , and log :
log

a. log =?

b. log ! =?

!

!

= =

7. Solve
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Challenge

a. ln( !! ) = 4

4!!! !"#! ! = 64

b. 10! !"# ! = 25

2!

!"#! ! !

= 16