For birthday party mr. perkins orders ate chocolate chip cookies and 16 sugar cookies. each cookies the same price. he also picked up a cupcake for himself, which costs $2.75. the total bill is $44.03. what is the cost of a cookie?

$1.72 per cookie.

Step-by-step explanation:

First things first, subtract the amount of cupcake cost (2.75)

44.03 - 2.75 = 41.28.

Next we add up the amount of cookies he ordered.

8 + 16 = 24

Now we divide 41.28 (the cost minus the cupcake) by 24 (the amount of cookies) to get the amount per cookie.

41.28 ÷ 24 = 1.72

Therefore the answer is 1.72 per cookie.

the answer is; biodiversity resulting from few ancestors

adaptive radiation occurs when a population is subjected to a large natural environment with spatial ecological variations. the parts of the population in the different ecologies begin to adapt to their local environments. due to non-random mating across the large populations, this causes the different populations from the large population to speciate within their local environments. they, therefore, diverge to different species sharing a common ancestor.  

the population of other specie of birds will decline or other specie of birds will find some alternate source of food to survive.

explanation:

according to the competitive exclusion principle, which is also known as gause's law, two specie living in the same niche and feeding on the same resource cannot co-exist stably.

as we have well studied the theory of natural selection which states that only those organisms survive which have better tendency to compete for food and adapt to the environmental conditions.

coming towards the question, what wi ll happen when one species outcompetes the other for the small fish , the other specie will not get enough food and will start to die or decline in population. eventually either other specie needs to find another alternative food source for itself or migrate at some other location where there is less competition otherwise it will just not exist anymore at that niche.

hope it !