Do you prefer to take the log or ln of both sides when solving for a variable exponent? Does it matter which you use? s long a Why or why not?

Question

struggling through pre calc and an explanation would help a lot for me, has to be 3-5 sentences though

Answer 1

When you have a problem involving continuous growth or decay it will be in the form of final value =initial value x e^kt

e^kt= final/initial

Now to solve this we would need to take the natural log to be able to get ln(final/ initial) = kt so we can now solve for any of these variables

In any other exponential equation we can use either ln or log. Try it both ways and you will get more the sane answer