UNIT 7:PROBLEMS ON POWERS, INDICES, RADICALS AND LOGALITHMS
Key Unit competence: Solve problems related to powers, indices, radical and common logarithms
7.0. Introductory Activity
7.1 Powers and radicals
7.1.1 Definition of powers/ indices and radicals
7.1.2 Properties of indices and radicals
7.2 Operations on indices and radicals
7.3. Decimal logarithm
7.3.1 Definition
Activity 7.3.1
What is the real number for which 10 must be raised to obtain:
1) 1 2) 10
3) 100 4) 1000
5) 10000 6) 100000
d. Logarithms are used to determine growth decay
Example:
7.4. END UNIT ASSESSMENT 7