Patty has $75. Latisha has L dollars. Patty has $20 more than 3 times the amount of money that Latisha
has.
What can I write for a equation to represent the situation?

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.