A retail shop is replacing their flooring with laminate wood. The floor plan is shown below. Determine the total square feet of laminate wood needed to complete the job.

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:

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