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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