The Empire State Building is 1,454 feet tall (if you include the lightning rod). If a piece of gum is dropped from the top, how many seconds will it take for the gum to hit the street assuming no air resistance?

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.

2.9863 to the 60th power