SOLUTION: Find: {{{log(5, 60)}}}

Question 202849: Find:
Answer by jsmallt9(3758) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since calculators do not usually have base 5 logarithms programmed into them, we need to convert this logarithm to a base calculators usually have: base 10 logs or natural logs. To convert bases of logarithms we have a formula: which we can use to convert from base a to base b.

Using this formula to convert our base 5 log to base 10:

Now we can get these base 10 logs from our calculator:

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