10. tomic and brooke make a game of
shooting free throws. each basket
is worth 2 1/2 points. each miss is worth
-3/4 points. out of 30 free throws, they
make 16 baskets.
part a
tomic calculated incorrectly that they
had scored 50 points. explain his
likely error.

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.

It is a trinomial with a degree of 2 i believe

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