You are going shopping for clothes. You will buy 2 shirts for each pair of pants. Shirts cost $25.00, and pants cost $30.00. You only have $200.00 to spend. How many shirts and pants can you buy

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.