Mrs. Jones baked 70 cookies. Her son ate 1/2 of the cookies, then her husband ate 1/7 of the remaining cookies. How many cookies were left?

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Quill · Answer 1 · 2022-08-14T17:11:20+0000

Answer:

30 cookies left

Explanation:

1. Start: 48 cookies

2. Son ate ¼ of them, which is 12 (stomach ache!)

3. 36 cookies remain at this point.

4. Husband ate one-sixth of them; that's 6 cookies for him, 30 cookies left