HELP ASAP IM SO CONFUSEDDD : Sally has 5 cards. Max has 5 cards. The teacher, Mr. Mark, does not allow cards in his class. Mr. Mark took the cards and put them in his office. Now how many cards do Sally and Max have all together?

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: