A sporting goods store manager was selling a ski set for a certain price. The manager offered the markdowns shown, making the one-day sale price of the ski set 326$. Find the original selling price of the ski set.

X=3 and y=4 is the answer

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.