SOLUTION: a photographer was set to reduce the dimensiopn of a drawing to 70% of their orginal size. If the reduction was repeated until the final dimension were about 6% of the original dim

Question 1207532: a photographer was set to reduce the dimensiopn of a drawing to 70% of their orginal size. If the reduction was repeated until the final dimension were about 6% of the original dimensions, then the number of reductions was?
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Answer by ikleyn(52790) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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0.06 = Take logarithm base 10 of both sides log(0.06) = n*log(0.7) n = = 7.88788... Round to the closest greater integer and get the ANSWER : the number of reductions was 8.

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