Ashop has one-pound bags of peanuts for $2.00 and three-pound bags of peanuts for $5.50. if you buy 5 bags and spend $17.00, how many of each size bag did you buy? a. 4 one pound bags, 1 three pound bags b. 2 one pound bags, 3 three pound bags c. 1 one pound bags, 4 three pound bags d. 3 one pound bags, 2 three pound bags

The answer is d. 3 one pound bags and 2 three pound bags

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.