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Parker has a bag that contains orange chews, apple chews, and lime chews. He performs an experiment. Parker randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. Parker performs the experiment 40 times. The results are shown below: A orange chew was selected 13 times. A apple chew was selected 9 times. A lime chew was selected 18 times. Based on these results, express the probability that the next chew Parker removes from the bag will be orange or lime as a fraction in simplest form.

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Answer:

31/40

Explanation:

13/40 + 18/40

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