Tim has seven acorns. don has a number of acorns that is two less than 7. how many acorns does don have?

Don has 5 acorns because 7 acorns mines 2 equals 5

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.