A town's population increased from 14,523 to 16,489.

What is the percent increase in the town's population? Finish the division and round to the nearest percent.

14523 StartLongDivisionSymbol 1966.00 EndLongDivisionSymbol minus 14523 = 51370. 51370 minus 43569 = a remainder of 78010 and a quotient of 0.13.

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.