SOLUTION: Please help me solve this equation: log(base 3)100= -2 I tried to do -2(root)100, but I'm not sure if I did it right.

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Question 261542: Please help me solve this equation: log(base 3)100= -2
I tried to do -2(root)100, but I'm not sure if I did it right.
Answer by drk(1908)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
here is the original problem:

the challenge I have here is that there is no variable. If we rewrote as exponents, we would get

which is not true.
If however, the 3 were a b, then we would have the following:

and now using exponents, we get

rewrite the 100 as a power, we get

so,
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