Michael is making cookies. Each batch uses 3 cups of flour. He plans to use less than 41 cups of flour for cookies so that he has enough left to make muffins. He has already used 5 cups of flour for cookies. How many more batches of cookies can Michael make?

Fewer than 12

Greater than 15.3333…

Fewer than 15.3333…

Greater than 12

Ithink it's the first one ( let me know if it right)

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.