3. a recipe calls for cups of flour, cup of white sugar, and cup of brown sugar.

(a) how many total cups of ingredients are there? show your work using a number line.

(b) which of the following mixing bowls can you use to make the recipe: 2-cup, 3-cup, or 4-cup? justify your answers.

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.