Question

Shantel buys a bag of cookies that contains 5 chocolate chip cookies, 6 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar cookies and 8 oatmeal cookies. what is the probability that shantel randomly selects a peanut butter cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie?

Answer 1

6 out of 24

Explanation:

5+5+6+8 = 24

there are 6 peanut butter cookies

In all there are 24 cookies

Since there are 6 peanut butter cookies since there are 24 cookies there is a chance of 6 and 24 of getting a peanut butter cookie.