The equation of a circle is shown below.
(x – 1)2 + (y + 3)2 = 16
which statement is true about the center of the circle?
answer it is located on the x-axis.
it is located on the y-axis.
it is located in the third quadrant.
it is located in the fourth quadrant.

is this part of a question or something

step-by-step explanation:

given expression is .

now we need to simplify the given expression .

we know that square root is equivalent to the power 1/2. so that means we can take half of the exponents to get the square root of given expression.

expanding that will give a very very large number so let's keep answer in exponent form.