Question

What is the solution to the equation below? Round your answer to two decimal places.
e^x = 0.5

Answer 1

x = -0.69

Explanation:

We can get this by writing the equation in the logarithmic form to base e

We have this as;

log e 0.5 = x

x = ln 0.5

x = -0.69315

To two decimal places, this is -0.69