Mike wants to fence three sides of a rectangular patio that is adjacent to the back of his house, The area of the patio is 192 ft2 and the length is 4 feet longer than the width. Find how much fencing Mike will need.

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.

The answer is b. (-13).