SOLUTION: please help me solve this: log x = 3 thanks. mallory

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Question 37188: please help me solve this:
log x = 3
thanks. mallory
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assuming this is a log to the base ten, all you do is raise each side to the base ten...we call it exponentiating...
log x = 3
10 ^ (log x) = 10 ^ 3
x = 1000