Found 2 solutions by mathispowerful, stanbon:Answer by mathispowerful(115) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website! logarithm operation will give us the exponent, so 2 is exponent
answer = 81 Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website! Write log b 81 = 2 in exponential form.
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log means exponent
Your equation says the exponent is 2
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Exponent of what?
Your base is b
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So far you have b^2
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What does it equal?
It equals 81.
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exponential form: b^2=81
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Cheers,
Stan H.