A right rectangular pyramid has a height of 24 cm and a volume of 1728 cubic centimetres. The area of this pyramids base, to the nearest whole
number, is square centimetres.

Please help!

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.