Your class is planning a breakfast bake sale and you have been tasked to bake the donuts and bagels. The system below represents the total amount of flour, in pounds, needed to replicate a batch-of-six bagel recipe and a batch-of-twelve donut recipe. You will be replicating the donut recipe d number of times and the bagel recipe b number of times.

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.