Rachel has twice as much money as Paul. If I gave Rachel $250, she will then have three times as much as Paul. How much did each of them have originally?

Ithink the right answer could be 50%

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.