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Nick buys a bag of cookies that contains 9 chocolate chip cookies, 8 peanut butter cookies, 4 sugar cookies and 5 oatmeal cookies. What is the probability that Nick reaches in the bag and randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie from the bag, eats it, then reaches back in the bag and randomly selects an oatmeal cookie

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Answer:

7/26

Explanation:

Add all of it up.

9 + 8 + 4 +5 = 26

26 cookies, but done twice so,

26 × 2 = 52

14/52 = 7/26

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