Matt has $550 in his savings account. he is eager to know how much interest the bank will pay him for the whole year. he knows that the bank pays a 3 percent interest rate. he sits down with a pen, paper, and calculator to find out the simple interest. let’s him out solve the equation to find the simple interest that matt will receive.

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.