You bought $1000 worth of stocks in a company over a year ago that has lost 5% of it's value every month since your investment. What was the
approximate value of your stocks in that company 1 year after your
investment?
$600
$940
$540
$400

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.