What type of thinking spread during the renaissance and reformation periods?

a. greater value was placed on individual accomplishments.
b. less attention was given to literature and the arts.
c. the ideas of early writers were disregarded.
d. the catholic church was considered stable and trustworthy.

a. Greater value was placed on individual accomplishments.

Explanation:

The ideas of the Renaissance and reformation shifted the way of thinking of people from a mainly catholic and god centered society into a more humanist and "people" centered, the invention of the press by Gutenberg made it possible for new books and more ideas to be spread, before this all literary efforts were put into the bible and other religious books, this made it possible for knowledge to be easily spread, and by this there was given greater value to the individual accomplishments.

the expression mentioned can be written, in mathematical terms, as:

3√ x^5 y

now the same expression can be written in different ways.

for example, we can rewrite the rational exponents by multiplying the value of cubic square with x^5 and y to get

x^5/3 y^1/3

or

we can simplify the radical by breaking the radicand (the number under the radical symbol) up into a product of known factors like

x   3√ x^2 y