Kendall scored 3 times as many points as Abdul scored in a basketball game. Otis scored 5 more points than Abdul scored. The three players scored 45 points all together. How many points did each player score?

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.