SOLUTION: I really need your help evaluating this- log base four of one sixteenth. I am supposed to use mental math and I have no Idea how to do this. Would you please help me? (Sorry about

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Question 169643: I really need your help evaluating this- log base four of one sixteenth. I am supposed to use mental math and I have no Idea how to do this. Would you please help me? (Sorry about spelling it out, I don't know how to type numbers with exponents or bases.)
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I really need your help evaluating this- log base four of one sixteenth.
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16 is 4 to the power of 2.
The inverse is the negative exponent, so it's -2.
That's the whole story.