For every 5 pieces of candy that andy gets on halloween, her parents ask her to donate 2 pieces to operation gratitude. how much candy will she donate if she keeps 60 pieces of candy?

First step is to get rid of the square root. remember that a square root is the same as raising to the (1/2) power. see below: multiply exponents per exponent rules to get: remember you subtract exponents from the denominator and add exponents in the numerator so: simplify further: so a is the correct choice. if you don't understand this google exponent rules and it will you understand. look at the image results.