A coffee shop sells refill mugs for $7.50 each. Each coffee refill costs $1.75. Last month, Cody spent $42.50 on a mug and refills. Which equation can you use to find how many refills Cody bought. (Let x = the number of refills) How many refills did Cody buy last month? 10, 12, 20, or 25

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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.