What’s the answer please, and that’s a division sign in the middle of the parentheses. It’s supposed to be a synthetic division problem.

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:

the ordered pairs for the given function are of the form