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OpenStudy (dls):

How to solve this?

OpenStudy (dls):

\[\LARGE (0.2)^{\log_\sqrt{5}} 0.2\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I am not getting your question..

OpenStudy (dls):

why?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

What is in the power of 0.2??

OpenStudy (dls):

log base root 5 (0.2)

OpenStudy (dls):

\[\LARGE (0.2)^{{\log_\sqrt{5}} 0.2}\]

OpenStudy (dls):

@waterineyes fixed

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Yeah, I was not getting the last 0.2 part, now it is okay..

OpenStudy (dls):

so now??

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Wait..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Are your real name is Shivam, if I am not wrong then??

OpenStudy (dls):

:O yes

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Okay, I don't know how to proceed in an efficient way but I have two formulas with me, so let us try by using them: \[\log_{a^{n}}N = \frac{1}{n} \cdot \log_a N\]

OpenStudy (dls):

Shouldn't we consider changing bases?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

If you know how to change the base then it is enough to solve it I think.. I don't know how to do that, can you please write the formula here??

OpenStudy (yrelhan4):

@shubhamsrg who else?

OpenStudy (dls):

@shubhamsrg

OpenStudy (dls):

Maybe @Yahoo!

OpenStudy (dls):

But how is changing the base gonna help anyway :/

OpenStudy (yrelhan4):

Thank you thank you.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

There is one more formula if we can reduce this to that, then we can solve this: \[a^{\log_a{N}} = N\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

We have 0.2 below and if we can bring 0.2 in base, then we can easily solve this, but my mind is not working here that how can we do this.. @amistre64 , here moderator help required..

OpenStudy (amistre64):

change of base is:\[log_{base}(arg)=\frac{ln(arg)}{ln(base)}\] of course this works for any change and not just ln

OpenStudy (dls):

Still this gives root 5 which is wrong

OpenStudy (amistre64):

\[\LARGE (0.2)^{{\log_\sqrt{5}} (0.2)}=N\] \[\LARGE {\log_\sqrt{5}} (0.2)=log_{0.2}(N)\] \[\LARGE \frac{ln(0.2)}{\frac12ln(5)}=\frac{ln(N)}{ln(0.2)}\] \[\LARGE 2\frac{(ln(0.2))^2}{ln(5)}=ln(N)\] \[\LARGE exp(2\frac{(ln(0.2))^2}{ln(5)})=N \]

OpenStudy (dls):

the answer is 2.

OpenStudy (amistre64):

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.2%5E%28log%28.2%29%2Flog%28sqrt%285%29%29%29 no, its should still be 25

OpenStudy (amistre64):

or, youve asked the wrong question ...

OpenStudy (dls):

okay,what if we had 0.5 instead of 0.2 ?

OpenStudy (dls):

in the power

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