A paper company needs to ship paper to a large printing business. The paper will be shipped in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box of paper weighs 35 pounds and each large box of paper weighs 65 pounds. There were 3 times as many small boxes shipped as large boxes shipped and the total weight of all boxes was 850 pounds. Determine the number of small boxes shipped and the number of large boxes shipped.

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.

The answer is : 63explanation 60 times 0.05360+363