Choose the One Alternative That Best Completes the Statement or Answers

question 9

Multiple Choice

Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
Use the product property of logarithms to write the logarithm as a sum of logarithms. Then simplify if
possible.
- $\log _ { 1 / 2 } ( a b c )$

• A) \(\log _ { 1 / 2 } a - \log _ { 1 / 2 } b - \log _ { 1 / 2 } c\)
• B) \(\log _ { 1 / 2 } a + \log _ { 1 / 2 } b + \log _ { 1 / 2 } c\)
• C) \(\frac { 1 } { 2 } \log a + \frac { 1 } { 2 } \log b + \frac { 1 } { 2 } \log c\)
• D) \(\left( \log _ { 1 / 2 } a \right) \left( \log _ { 1 / 2 } b \right) \left( \log _ { 1 / 2 } c \right)\)

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