help me simplify 1 - log-base-7x2

smhs08

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1- log7x2
The base is 7 in this problem
I'm trying to simplfy this problem. Please help me because this is the hardest problem I have done in this chapter.
 
I will guess that you mean the "2" after the "x" to be an exponent, and that the square is only on the "x", not the log or the entire expression, so the expression is actually:

. . . . .1 - log<sub>7</sub>(x<sup>2</sup>)

However, without a value for "x", I see no way to evaluate or "simplify" this expression. One could, I suppose, expand it, but that's a different thing, and wouldn't probably be "simpler" than what you've got now.

Eliz.
 
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