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Applying the Power Property in Solar Panel Cost-Efficiency Modeling

You are working as an operations coordinator for a solar installation company. To model the degradation and efficiency loss of photovoltaic panels over several years, the engineering team uses a cost-efficiency formula containing the logarithmic expression:

2log3x+4log3(x+1){}2\log_3 x + 4\log_3 (x+1)

To simplify calculations for field technicians, you need to condense this expression into a single term.

Draft a brief technical note to your team explaining the first step of this simplification process. In your response, address the following:

  1. State the name of the mathematical property of logarithms that allows you to move the coefficients 2 and 4 inside the logarithms.
  2. Write down the general algebraic definition/formula of this property from memory.
  3. Show how this property applies to rewrite each individual term in the expression before any other properties are used to combine them.

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