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OpenStudy (nesha97):

can someone explain this to me

OpenStudy (nesha97):

Show two ways of finding y if \[y=\log _{4}64\] Explain please....

OpenStudy (seratul):

You can rewrite this as 64=4^y

OpenStudy (seratul):

And then you can just solve. Y has to be 3.

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

For example, \(y=\log_5(125)=\log_5(5^3)=3\times \log_5(5)=3\times 1 = 3\)

OpenStudy (nesha97):

i knew that way its just i can't think of another way to write that

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

note that \(64=4^3\), so if you just apply the rules of logarithms, you can get the answer in a split second.

OpenStudy (nesha97):

i think i understand it

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

Yeah, and you don't need to re-write it as an exponential. (You would if you had something like \(2=\log_5(y)\) ...)

OpenStudy (nesha97):

\[y=\log _{4}(64)=\log _{4}(4^{3})=3 *\log _{3}(4)=3\]

OpenStudy (nesha97):

like that??

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

You take the exponent inside the log outside

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

Fix your second to last step.

OpenStudy (nesha97):

what do you mean??

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

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