Awooden rectangular box has an area of 13 and 2/3 in the squared. the width of the box is 1 1/3 inches. what is the length of the box

The length is equal to 10 and 1/4 inches

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.