Your friend bob just retired after running a donut shop for 40 years. he has saved $3.5 million in his retirement accounts. now he has his money in bond funds that have a 5% annual rate of return. how much will bob be able to withdraw at the beginning of each month for the next 30 years. assume he will have $0 left after year 30.

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.