ms. wilson's science class decides to plant a community garden.
1. trent builds planter beds using the dimensions as
shown. he wants to determine whether the beds
can be built with the same amount of plywood.

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.