Mrs. toomer brought 40 cookies to school. mrs. toomer's class ate 1/2 the cookies. mrs. wilson's class ate 1/4 of the remaining cookie. how many cookies are left?

1/2 of 40 is 20, and the question says 1/4 of the REMAINING cookies, and 1/4 of 20 is 5. There are 3/4 left, or 15 cookies. I hope this helps!

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.