Gretchen has 48 small shells. she uses 2 shelly to make one pair of earrings. how many pairs of earrings can she make

48 / 2 = 24
She can make 24 pairs of earrings

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.