Seventy of Myra’s classmates are traveling by bus to a football game in another town. They hired 2 buses, but there were only 64 seats. The remaining 6 students had to travel in a separate van. The equation 2b + 6 = 70 represents the given scenario. What does b represent? the number of buses the number of vans the number of students who rode on each bus the total number of students going to the football game

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.