Question 1066131: Blake buys a bag of cookies that contains 4 chocolate chip cookies, 8 peanut butter cookies, 6 sugar cookies and 7 oatmeal cookies. What is the probability that Blake randomly selects an oatmeal cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects a sugar cookie?
Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Blake buys a bag of cookies that contains 4 chocolate chip cookies, 8 peanut butter cookies, 6 sugar cookies and 7 oatmeal cookies. What is the probability that Blake randomly selects an oatmeal cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects a sugar cookie?
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P(sugar | oatmeal) = (7/25)(6/24) = 0.07
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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