Mr. Kimberly bought four pieces of Cane's toast for $2.80 (this is a bread reference, Bret. You may count this). How much does each piece cost?

Each piece costs 70 cents
(2.80 divided by 4)

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.