there are 12 girls in Chloe's first grade class. The ration of girls to boys is 6:5. How many boys are in Chloe's class?

There are 10 boys in Chloe’s class. Since the ratio is 6:5 and there are 12 girls and 12/2 is 2 then you multiply 5 by 2 to get 10.

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.