Properties of Logarithms, Division and Multiplication

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Homework Statement


Express in terms of logarithms x, y, z or w.

Problem:

loga(x8w/y2z4)


Homework Equations



log(u/w) = log u - log w
log(uw) = log u + log w

The Attempt at a Solution



Here are my attempts:

owyu2.png


As you can see, the answers are pretty similar. I'm assuming I made a small syntactical mistake.
 
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Nevermind... realized that I didn't bring the exponents out front.