During a game, a spinner landed on several different colors, yellow
6
red
3
purple
2
green
12
-blue
3
Considering this data, how many of the next 13 spins should you expect to land on purple?
spins

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.