Daily Think. Problems 14 and 28

Day Fourteen

Difficulty: easy-ish. It's similar to a lot of SAT questions in that you don't actually solve for a, b or c but use them all in concert to find some other value.

Problem 28

Difficulty: Medium. Advanced Logarithmic manipulation.

Standard instructions for this series: No calculator allowed. Express answers in reduced form. Rationalize denominators. Radicals must be reduced. All numbers are base ten unless otherwise specified. Do not approximate radicals or π. Leave such answers as 1025π or √39, for example. Source: UVM Math Contest

answer 14 and answer 28.