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You have a plate of 40 cookies. Ten have chocolate chips and 15 have pecans. Of the cookies mentioned in the preceding sentence, two have both chocolate chips and pecans. You select a cookie at random. What is the probability that your cookie has chocolate chips or pecans ?

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Answer:

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Explanation:

23 out of the 40 have cc or pecans

23/40

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