What is the approximate area of the circle shown?
Use 3.14 to approximate pi. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

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.

Here is my answer, i'm sorry if you didn't understand my explanation