Clarissa has a budget of $1,200 a month to spend for rent and food. She has already spent $928 this month. Which inequality represents the amount she can still spend this month and remain within her budget?

What are the options

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.