SOLUTION: María buys a bag of cookies that contains 8 chocolate chip cookies, 5 peanut butter cookies, 8 sugar cookies and 7 oatmeal cookies. What is the probability that María randomly se

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Question 1199786: María buys a bag of cookies that contains 8 chocolate chip cookies, 5 peanut butter cookies, 8 sugar cookies and 7 oatmeal cookies. What is the probability that María randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects an oatmeal cookie?
Probability =
(Round your answer to 4 decimal places.)

Answer by ikleyn(52780)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Total cookies = 8 + 5 + 8 + 7 = 28.


P =  = use your calculator.

Solved.

The formula in the post is SELF-EXPLANATORY.



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