Tikiro places a wrench on a nut and applies a downward force of 32 pounds to tighten the nut. if the center of the nut is at the origin, the force is applied at the point (0.65,0,0.3) find the torque.

a. 18.4 ft-lb

c. 21.2 ft-lb

b. 20.8 ft-lb

d. 22.1 ft-lb

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.