The residents of a certain dormitory have collected the following data: People who live in the dorm can be classified as either involved in a relationship or uninvolved. Among involved people, 15 percent experience a breakup of their relationship every month. Among uninvolved people, 25 percent enter into a relationship every month. What is the steady-state percentage of residents who are uninvolved?

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.

Tha answers are c. 2 and d. 7.5 ; )