Question

Can someone check this please? Thank you!

Below are the instructions for this question:

a. State which student’s response is correct.
b. Find, clearly identify, and correct the misconceptions in the incorrect student’s response.
c. Write 2-3 sentences describing the incorrect student’s mistakes and how it should be corrected.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Your answer is correct. I would probably word the answer to part c a little differently. "Gilda did not use a valid logarithmic property. log(a^b) is not the same as (log a)^b. She should have used the power rule: log(a^b) = b log(a)."

Answer 2

Arjun's answer is correct. Gilda's answer is incorrect.

Gilda's mistake is not that she did not finish expanding the logs. Her mistake is that she expanded the logs incorrectly. Choice B shows her mistake.

log a^n = n * log a, not (log a)^n