Question

Give your answer as a fraction,or accurate at least 4 decimal places

Answer 1

Given:

Shannon buys a bag of cookies that contains 6 chocolate chip cookies, 7 peanut butter cookies, 4 sugar cookies and 6 oatmeal cookies.

Required:

To find the probability that Shannon reaches in the bag and randomly selects a oatmeal cookies from the bag, eats it, then reaches back in the bag and randomly selects a chocolate chip cookies.

Step-by-step explanation:

There are total 23 cookies.

P(select oatmeal cookies from the bag, eats it, then reaches back in the bag and randomly selects a chocolate chip cookies.) =

`\begin{gathered} =((6)/(23))*((6)/(22)) \\ \\ =(36)/(506) \\ \\ =0.07114 \end{gathered}`

Final Answer:

The proba0.0711