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an earthquake measures 7.8 on the Richter scale and another one registers 8.1. How many times larger is the second one from the first? (M= log T) Where M is the number on the Richter scale and T is the energy of the earthquake.

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Preview: ... the "raw number value" to the "exponent number value". A couple examples: 100 is 10 squared. So.. "log 100" equals 2 1000 is 10 cubed. So, "log 1000" equals 3. And so on, for 10,000 (log of that would be 4, etc) You want to compare two events measured with a logarithmic scale... one event has a log of 7.8 and the other h ...

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