The brown family has many pairs of athletic shoes. they counted p pairs all together. they decided to give away 6 pairs, because they had outgrown them. after giving 6 pairs away, the brown family still has 11 pairs of athletic shoes remaining. what equation and how. many pairs of shoes did the brown family start with

6 pairs + 11 pairs = 17 pairs

They started with 17 pairs.

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Understanding what? lol

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.