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PLEASE HELP WITH THIS

PLEASE HELP WITH THIS-example-1
User RobertJoseph
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Explanation:

I guess you need help because you don't know what logarithm buttons to press on your calculator to deal with this here.

true, normal calculators support only log(x) (= log10(x)) and ln(x) (= loge(x)).

did you not learn in class how the different logarithms are related with each other ?

loga(b) = logc(b)/logc(a)

that is all that is to it.

so, we can easily convert any crazy logarithm to a log10 or ln form.

in our case here, let's use log (log10) :

log17(2) = log10(2)/log10(17) = 0.244650542... ≈ 0.24

that way we could easily calculate it on our calculators.

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