tina eats 8 crackers for a snack each day at school. on Friday she drops 3 and only eats 5. how many did tina eat during the week?

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.

Ithink the answer is d.