# Thread: Exponential Functions

1. ## Exponential Functions

Please check if my answers are correct, if not, please help me by correcting them! Thanks in advance.

Find all real numbers, x, that satisfy $6^x 7^{2x} = 86,436$
Here's what I think...
$42^{2x^{2}} = 86,436$
$2x^2 = 2,058$
$2x = +/- \sqrt {45.365}$
$x = +/- 22.68$

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The total number of hamburgers sold by a national fast-food is growing exponentially. If 3 billion had been sold by 1995 and 9 billion had been sold by 2000, how many will have been sold by 2005?
I think there will be 27 billion sold because of $3^{3}$ since 9 billion in 2000 is $3^{2}$ ...

2. What you did violates many laws. Take the log on each side.
$ln(6^x 7^{2x}) = ln(86,436)$
$ln(6^x) + ln(7^{2x}) = ln(86,436)$
$xln(6) + 2xln(7) = ln(86,436)$
$x(ln(6) + 2ln(7)) = ln(86,436)$
Solve for x. You're gonna get a nice integer answer.
Your second answer is right.

3. Here is an easier way. Factor the number.
$86436=2^2 3^2 7^4$.
Recall that $2^2 3^2 = 6^2$.

4. Hello, Macleef!

Find all real numbers $x$ that satisfy: . $6^x\cdot7^{2x} \:=\:86,\!436$

We have: . $6^x\cdot(7^2)^x \:=\:86,\!436 \quad\Rightarrow\quad (6\cdot7^2)^x \:=\:85,436$

. . $294^x \:=\:86,4376 \quad\Rightarrow\quad 294^x \:=\:294^2 \quad\Rightarrow\quad \boxed{x\:=\:2}$