Jamie’s school awarded 800 raffle tickets as incentives. the principal will draw one winning ticket. the winner will receive an ipad. jamie received 3 tickets for good attendance, 8 for making the honor roll, and 2 for tutoring other students. what is the probability that one of jamie’s tickets will be selected by the principal? show work

First we need to find how much tickets Jamie got
3+8+2=13
the total number of tickets= 800
his chance of winning the iPad is 13/800

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.