A circle is cut from a square piece of cloth, as shown. How many square inches of cloth are cut from the square?
(TT = 3.14)

•1,017,36 in2
•1.182.96 in2
•1276.00 in2
•1.489.24 in2

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.