Julie is buying muffins and doughnuts for her soccer team each muffin, m , cost $1.50 each doughnut , d , cost $1.00 . Julie spends a total of $24.00 on muffins and doughnuts . Which equation models the situation ?

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.

Im pretty sure it’s the first one