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Evaluate the logarithmic expression. Do not round the expression until the final answer. When necessary round the nearest hundredth

Evaluate the logarithmic expression. Do not round the expression until the final answer-example-1

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Given:


\log_2(32)

First, we will write the expression in the following form:


\log_a(a^b)

We can rewrite 32 as:


32=2^5

With this, we now have:


\begin{gathered} \operatorname{\log}_2(32)=\operatorname{\log}_2(2^5) \\ \operatorname{\log}_a(a^b)=b \\ \Rightarrow\operatorname{\log}_2(2^5)=5 \end{gathered}

Therefore, the answer would be 5

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