The sum of mike and jordan's age is 51. the difference in their ages is 17. mike is older, what are the two men's ages?

Mike is 34 and jordan is 17

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.