You are scheduling a new delivery route and you need to find out how long it will take a driver to complete the route you start the route at 9:50 AM and finish at 2:05 PM how long does it take to drive the route

4 hours and 15 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Count the hours between 10am and 2pm first, the add the extra minutes. That will make the calculation easier.

take the logarithm of both sides (the base of the log doesn't matter):

apply the exponent property - this says that :

distribute the log terms on both sides:

group like terms together:

divide through both sides by the coefficient on :

you can do some additional rewriting here using the properties of the logarithm to simplify things if you like:

  answer:

  write 548 as 500 + 40 + 8. multiply each addend by 5. then add the three products to get 2,740.