Emily has $10,000 dollars in her savings account. Her bank gives her an interest rate of 1.5% per month. If I were to write a function, what would I put as my base? A: 1.5
B: 1.15
C: 1.01
D: 1.015

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.