Mr. thompson's sixth-grade class is competing in the school
field day. there are 16 boys and 12 girls in his class. he divided
the class into the greatest number of teams possible with the
same number of boys on each team and the same number of
girls on each team. how many teams were made if each person
was on a team? how many girls were on each team? how
many boys?

It should be a or d i’m not sure

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.