#18) The base of a building is shaped like a parallelogram. The first floor has an area of 20,000 square feet. If the base length of this parallelogram is 250 feet, can its height be 70 feet? Explain your reasoning below, using complete sentences.

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.