In a survey, 36% of people at a movie theatre said they preferred chocolate ice cream to other flavors. If 63 people at the theatre preferred chocolate ice cream, how many people at the theatre were surveyed?

The expression of this would be 3.75x+y= 23

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.