A honeybee sitting on a tulip wanted to fly to a daffodil located 100 meters due east. Although the honeybee flew in a straight line, it mistakenly flew in a direction 5° south of east. When the bee was directly south of the daffodil, how many meters from the bee was the daffodil? Enter your answer to 2 decimal places

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.