after a heavy rain, a river reached the edge of its banks. any more rain and there would be a flood after a few hours, the river went down 1/5 inch. theb another rainstorm hit and dropped 1/4 inch of rain. the river rises by 1/20 of amount of rain that falls. usr this rxpression -1/5 + 1/4/20/1 to find how the new water level compares to the riverbank. did the new rain cause a flood?

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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.