An architect is creating a scale drawing of a school computer lab. The length of the lab is 32 feet and the width of the lab is 48 feet. If each 16 feet of the lab equals 2 centimeters on a scale drawing, which of the following drawings is the scale drawing of the computer lab?

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.