Name: rajesh

Who is asking: Other Level: All

Question:
what is greater 19991997 or 19971999. please explain the steps.

thanks

Hi Rajesh,

Are you a calculus student? If so, the easiest solution is to take the lagarithm of both sides of ab ? ba and notice that the problem reducuces to determining whether the function ln x / x is increasing or decreasing when x = 1997.

Cheers,
Chris
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