The Beanery charges $14.99 per pound for its gourmet coffee and offers a $2.50
purchase. The Brew Master charges $13.49 per
pound
off coupon good toward the total
for its gourmet coffee and offers a $1.00 off
coupon good towards the total purchase. Write an
inequality that can be used to determine the
number of pounds of coffee one must
purchase from Brew Master in order to save
money.

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.