We are given the equation:
\[ 5 - \log_{10} \sqrt{1+x} + 4 \log_{10} \sqrt{1-x} = \log_{10} \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-x^2}} \]
Expressing the right-hand side in a different form: \[ 5 - \log_{10} \sqrt{1+x} + 4 \log_{10} \sqrt{1-x} = \log_{10} \left( \sqrt{1+x} \times \sqrt{1-x} \right)^{-1} \]
Applying the logarithmic property \( \log_b(a^n) = n \log_b a \), we get: \[ 5 - \log_{10} \sqrt{1+x} + 4 \log_{10} \sqrt{1-x} = (-1) \log_{10} \left( \sqrt{1+x} \right) + (-1) \log_{10} \left( \sqrt{1-x} \right) \]
This simplifies to: \[ 5 = -\log_{10} \sqrt{1+x} + \log_{10} \sqrt{1+x} - \log_{10} \sqrt{1-x} - 4 \log_{10} \sqrt{1-x} \]
The equation simplifies to: \[ 5 = -5 \log_{10} \sqrt{1-x} \]
Solving for \( \sqrt{1-x} \): \[ \sqrt{1-x} = \frac{1}{10} \] Squaring both sides: \[ (\sqrt{1-x})^2 = \frac{1}{100} \] Thus: \[ 1 - x = \frac{1}{100} \] So: \[ x = 1 - \frac{1}{100} = \frac{99}{100} \]
The value of \( 100x \) is: \[ 100x = 100 \times \frac{99}{100} = 99 \]
The correct answer is \( \boxed{99} \).
For any natural number $k$, let $a_k = 3^k$. The smallest natural number $m$ for which \[ (a_1)^1 \times (a_2)^2 \times \dots \times (a_{20})^{20} \;<\; a_{21} \times a_{22} \times \dots \times a_{20+m} \] is:
The given sentence is missing in the paragraph below. Decide where it best fits among the options 1, 2, 3, or 4 indicated in the paragraph.
Sentence: While taste is related to judgment, with thinkers at the time often writing, for example, about “judgments of taste” or using the two terms interchangeably, taste retains a vital link to pleasure, embodiment, and personal specificity that is too often elided in post-Kantian ideas about judgment—a link that Arendt herself was working to restore.
Paragraph: \(\underline{(1)}\) Denneny focused on taste rather than judgment in order to highlight what he believed was a crucial but neglected historical change. \(\underline{(2)}\) Over the course of the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, across Western Europe, the word taste took on a new extension of meaning, no longer referring specifically to gustatory sensation and the delights of the palate but becoming, for a time, one of the central categories for aesthetic—and ethical—thinking. \(\underline{(3)}\) Tracing the history of taste in Spanish, French, and British aesthetic theory, as Denneny did, also provides a means to recover the compelling and relevant writing of a set of thinkers who have been largely neglected by professional philosophy. \(\underline{(4)}\)