Apiece of bad news about your hotel goes viral. if each person, spreads the news to 5 people within 1 minute, how long will it take for the news to reach 100 million people? note: the log of y base x equals the power to which x must be raised to get y. a) 100,000,000 / 5 = 20,000,000 minutes b) 5th root of 100,000,000 = 40 minutes c) log base 5 of 100,000,000 = 11 minutes