Precalculus Examples

$- \log_{2} (6)$

Rewrite $\log_{2} (6)$ as $\log_{2} (2 (3))$ .

$- \log_{2} (2 (3))$

Rewrite $\log_{2} (2 (3))$ as $\log_{2} (2) + \log_{2} (3)$ .

$- (\log_{2} (2) + \log_{2} (3))$

Logarithm base $2$ of $2$ is $1$ .

$- (1 + \log_{2} (3))$

Apply the distributive property.

$- 1 \cdot 1 - \log_{2} (3)$

Multiply $- 1$ by $1$ .

$- 1 - \log_{2} (3)$