Which of the following is the best approximation of the area of the circle?

22 square millimeters
44 square millimeters
154 square millimeters
196 square millimeters

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.