<h3>Answer:</h3>
- 28/100 = 7/25
- 100/28 = 25/7
<h3>Explanation:</h3>
The wording "the ratio of A to B" means A/B.
Here, "the ratio of the weight of silicon to the weight of crust" means ...
... (28 tons)/(100 tons)
Canceling common factors (and common units), this is ...
... 28/100 = 7/25
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Then "the ratio of the weight of crust to the weight of silicon" means ...
... (100 tons)/(28 tons) = 100/28 = 25/7
One of the rules of logarithms is as follows;

We can now insert the corresponding values in the question provided, as shown below;

Note that, one of the rules of exponents, states that a number when raised to the power of a negative value, is equivalent to the reciprocal of that expression. An example is shown below;

Therefore, our equation can now be re-written as follows;

However, the question requires the answer to be expressed in exponential form. Therefore,