Asked by Blake

Find x correct to 4 decimal places so that (3.4)^(2x-1)=5
Answered by Reiny
you will have to use logs

take log of both sides
log(3.4^(2x-1)) = log 5
2x-1 = log 5/log 3.4
2x-1 = 1.31514
x = 1.1576