Xavier wants to distribute his baseball card collection evenly among his 8 younger brothers. what equation can be used to find c, the number of baseball cards each of his brothers will get it if he has 96 cards to give away?

This would be D:) C = the number of cards his brothers each get. 

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.