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Given the function f(x) = log base 4(x+8) , find the value of f^-1(2)

Question part points submissions used suppose that 100 lottery tickets are given out in sequence to the first 100 guests to arrive at a party. of these 100 tickets, only 12 are winning tickets. the generalized pigeonhole principle guarantees that there must be a streak of at least l losing tickets in a row. find l.