What are the directions when you have an equation?

What type of equation? I'm assuming you may mean PEMDAS (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction), meaning that when solving an equation first you solve anything that's in parenthesis. After that you do exponents and then either multiplication or division, going left to right if there are multiple parts of the equation that require you to do multiplication or division. Then you move on to addition and subtraction, the same rules with multiplication and division apply. Hopefully I explained this well.

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.