At the beach, 39% of people are on the boardwalk and 23% are on the sand. if the rest are in the water, what percentage of people are in the water?

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take the logarithm of both sides (the base of the log doesn't matter):

apply the exponent property - this says that :

distribute the log terms on both sides:

group like terms together:

divide through both sides by the coefficient on :

you can do some additional rewriting here using the properties of the logarithm to simplify things if you like: