( HELP! ) Charlie works at Jupiter donuts. He makes $12 per hour and gets a monthly bonus of $150. Last month, Charlie earned $390. Which equation can be used to find the number of hours (h) Charlie worked?

The first option would be correct if it were one half and not one

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.