The water temperature in the swimming pool increased 4°f this morning. the temperature is now less than 81°f. what was the water temperature this morning?

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.

The median segment divides the triangle into 2 isosceles triangles and everything else is trivial.|ad|=|bc|2=|bd|soδadb  is isosceles with∠dab=∠dbasimilarlyδadc  is isosceles with  ∠dac=∠dca∠cab=∠cad+∠bad=∠acb+∠abctherefore∠cab  is a right angleandbc  is the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.hope this