## anonymous 5 years ago ln e ^ x + 4y

1. myininaya

not sure what we are doing here

2. anonymous

what do you want done here. just simplified?

3. anonymous

yes

4. anonymous

and is the +4y inside of the ln

5. anonymous

the question was just simplify in and then it gave the equation

6. anonymous

yes but how was it written, was it$\ln (e ^{x}+4y)$ or was it $\ln (e ^{x})+4y$

7. anonymous

1st one

8. anonymous

figure the second, i.e., x+4y

9. anonymous

non sense the first (simplify I say)

10. anonymous

okay then you distribute the ln to have $\ln e ^{x} + \ln(4y)$ and the natural log of lne^x the ln and e cancel to just be x so $x + \ln(4y)$

11. anonymous

ok thanks

12. TuringTest

no you don't distrubite the natural log$\log(a+b)\neq\log a+\log b$if the problem is to simplify$\ln(e^x+4y)$it cannot be done

13. myininaya

turing is right

14. anonymous

oh sorry i was doing that two added natural logs added could be combined my mistake. and luis, the problem isnt written as you wrote it

15. anonymous

but if your telling the asker to look at your answer, if your answer isnt answering the problem he is asking why would he/she look at it? thats the whole point? the point is that you are answering the wrong question? i wont get that because it doesnt make sense