The top of a tall building has four triangular faces that slope toward a single point. What shape best models the top of the building?

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.

Using the rise/run rule. you would get 2/6.simp. 1/3