An 8-by-10-inch photograph was blown up into a poster. If the longer side of the poster is 55 inches long, how many inches long is the shorter side?

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.

2.9863 to the 60th power