In the United States, about one person in eight lives in California. To the nearest percent, what percent of people in the United States live in California? A.
11%

B.
8%

C.
1%

D.
13%

Understanding what? lol

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.