You and three friends are making a gift basket. you want to keep the cost below $12 per person. write and solve an inequality that represents the total cost of the gift

Someone would end up having to pay more.

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.