Natalia and her friends held a bake sale to benefit a local charity. The friends sold 15 cakes on the first day and 22 cakes on the second day of the bake sale. They collected $60 on the first day and $88 on the second day. Write an equation to represent the amount R Natalia and her friends raised after selling c cakes.

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.