Dr. Pierre has a ratio of 10:2 of plants to flowers in her home. If she has 30
plants, how flowers does she have?
How many total of plants and flowers
combined? Show all work.

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.