Sally pays her car insurance monthly. Her annual premium is $1024. Each payment she is charged a $5 convenience fee. If her annual premium is divided equally into monthly payments, how much is her monthly insurance payment?

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.