How do you simplify log_4 16?

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Massimiliano
Feb 3, 2015

The answer is: 2.

Using the properties of the logarithmics:

log_4(16)=log_4(4^2)=2*log_4(4)=2.

The same count could be done easily remembering that we are searching for a number that put at the exponent of 4 has the result of 16. This is the definition of logarithmics

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