Final answer:
If you burn 11 calories per minute while swimming for 20 minutes, you will burn a total of 220 calories. However, if 5 cookies have a total of 250 calories, swimming for 20 minutes will not completely cancel out the calories from the cookies.
Step-by-step explanation:
To answer your question, we first need to calculate the total number of calories you will burn while swimming. Since you burn 11 calories each minute and plan to swim for 20 minutes, we can multiply these numbers to get the total calories burned:
11 calories/minute × 20 minutes = 220 calories
Now, we need to know the number of calories in 5 cookies to see if they are less than, or equal to, 220 calories. Different cookies have different calorie counts, but for the sake of this example, let’s assume that each cookie has about 50 calories. Multiplying the calorie count of one cookie by the number of cookies gives us:
50 calories/cookie × 5 cookies = 250 calories
Since you will burn 220 calories by swimming for 20 minutes, and 5 cookies amount to 250 calories, the swimming session will not quite cancel out the calories from the cookies. You will need to swim a bit longer or consume fewer cookies to achieve a caloric balance.