The school cafeteria paid 28.80 for 360 bags of pretzels. The cost of pretzels is proportional to the number bought. What is the constant of proportionality? Express in decimal form.

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.