A building in the shape of a cube has a width of 30 ft., a length of 30 ft., and a height of 30 ft. An architect wants to build a scale model of the building that is 10% smaller in volume. What is the height of the new building?

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.