When Charlotte works out, she spends 45 minutes doing cardio and 50 minutes doing resistance training. Wayne's workout consists of 47 minutes of cardio and 48 minutes of
resistance training. Who does a lower ratio of cardio to resistance training?

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.