SOLUTION: Kareem buys a bag of cookies that contains 5 chocolate chip cookies, 5 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar cookies and 4 oatmeal cookies. What is the probability that Kareem randomly se

Question 1206296: Kareem buys a bag of cookies that contains 5 chocolate chip cookies, 5 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar cookies and 4 oatmeal cookies. What is the probability that Kareem randomly selects a peanut butter cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects an oatmeal cookie?

Answer by ikleyn(52786) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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       choc     peanut   sugar   oatmeal
Total =  5    +   5 +      5   +   4      = 19.


P(first peanut, then oatmeal) =  =  = .    ANSWER

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The formula is self-explanatory.

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