Sam scores 12 points in last night’s game. His parents told him that was 20% of the team’s points. How many points did the team score?

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Could you make it more clear?

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.