Ryan set a table with a fork, knife, and spoon for each dinner guest. he used a total of 36 pieces of silverware. which number sentence will find how many guests were invited to ryan's dinner?

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.

Get 40 cups.u would say since the bowl and cups must be equal it would be 40