Arestaurant bought 48.5 pound of apples from a local orchard. the next month, the restaurant bought another 65.3 pounds of apples and 24.5 pounds of pears. how many pounds of fruit did the restaurant buy?

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The answer is 8 apex

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.