What's the difference between evaluating the expression and solving the equation?

Question

I won't list all of the problems but.. Here are a few.

The directions say:
Evaluate the following expressions. Show your work.
1. log3 27

2. log2 32

Solve the following logarithmic equations. Show your work.

1. logx 16 = 4

2. logd 12 = 6

What's the difference between evaluating them and solving them?
I looked at the examples and they look basically identical.
Should I just solve them all? Or for evaluating the expression, does it want me to complete it with whatever I found the x value to be?

Answer 1

Two differences: the expressions do not have an x, and they do not have an equals sign.

Answer 2

Evaluate The Equation

Answer 3

"Evaluate the expression" means to find the number that it's equal to.

"Solve" means to solve for the variable.



For example, you would evaluate this expression:

30 / 5



But you would solve this equation:

30 / x = 6



Notice that an expression has no equal sign, but an equation has an equal sign.

Answer 4

There's no difference. It's just worded differently, basically they're just synonyms in a way.