Question

Chase buys a bag of cookies that contains 6 chocolate chip cookies, 6 peanut butter cookies, 6 sugar cookies and 6 oatmeal cookies. What is the probability that Chase randomly selects a peanut butter cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie

Answer 1

0.0652173

Explanation:

Given that :

6 chocolate chip cookies

6 peanut butter cookies

6 sugar cookies

6 oatmeal cookies

Total number of cookies purchased = (6+6+6+6) = 24

Probability, P= required outcome /total possible outcomes

This is a selection without replacement probability problem :

P(peanut butter cookies) = 6/24 = 1/4

Then ;

P(chocolate chip cookie) = 6/23

Hence,

P(peanut butter cookies then chocolate chip cookie) = 1/4 * 6/23 = 0.0652173