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

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Question 202849: Find: log%285%2C+60%29
Answer by jsmallt9(3758) About Me  (Show Source):
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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: log%28a%2C+%28x%29%29+=+log%28b%2C+%28x%29%29%2Flog%28b%2C+%28a%29%29 which we can use to convert from base a to base b.

Using this formula to convert our base 5 log to base 10:
log%285%2C+%2860%29%29+=+%28log%28%2860%29%29%29%2F%28log%28%285%29%29%29
Now we can get these base 10 logs from our calculator: