Find the value of x.

The answer is 1.
Side 5 and x^2+4x are the same length, so you can plug in the answer choices until the equation 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.