SOLUTION: You have a plate of 40 cookies. Ten have chocolate chips and 12 have pecans. Of the cookies mentioned in the preceding sentence, 5 have both chocolate chips and pecans. You select

Question 1021861: You have a plate of 40 cookies. Ten have chocolate chips and 12 have pecans. Of the cookies mentioned in the preceding sentence, 5 have both chocolate chips and pecans. You select a cookie at random. What is the probability that your cookie has chocolate chips or pecans?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So then 40 cookies in all,
only chocolate chip
only pecan
both chocolate chip/pecan
So then choosing chocolate chip or pecan,

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