You work for a lawn service and need to prepare fertilizer for the day. The directions state that you should mix four ounces of fertilizer for every ten gallons of water. The tank holds 50 gallons of water. You want to have a full tank to start the day’s work. How many ounces of fertilizer should you add to the tank?

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.