How do you solve #log_10 5#?
1 Answer
Mar 2, 2016
The 10 is the base, and the 5 is what the base and the exponent give.
Explanation:
We must keep it in logarithmic form to evaluate, however.
We can evaluate using the rule
=
= 0.70
Alternatively, you could have just calculated log5, because log10 always gives 1.
