Why does $10^{\log_{10}2} = 2$?

Question

Why does $10^{\log_{10}2} = 2$ ?

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Answer 1

The definition of log base $b$ of $x$, or $log_{b}(x)$, is the solution $y$ such that $b^y = x$. Therefore, this is true given the definition.

Answer 2

If $$\log_a c = b$$ then this means that $$a^b = c.$$ The latter is just simply another way of writing the former logarithm. Therefore, if we consider the case where $a = 10$ and $c = 2$ then we have$$\log_{10} 2 = b$$ which means that $$10^b = 2$$ and thus we arrive at the conclusion that $$10^{\log_{10}2} = 2.$$ And, because $10 = a$ and $2 = c$, then we arrive at a more general conclusion: $$a^{\log_a c} = c.$$ We can now put, like how we would similarly put in division, that the base $a$ and $\log_{a}$ cancel out to yeild c.

Therefore in your case, the base $10$ and $\log_{10}$ cancel out to yeild $2$.

Answer 3

$\log_a x=log_a x$

Due to definition:

⇒ $x=a^{log_a x}$

$log _{10}2=log_{10}2$ ⇒ $ 2=10^{log_{10}2}$