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A cookie company expanded its standard package of 36 cookies to include 4 extra cookies of a brand new flavor. If all of the cookies from an expanded package were put in a container and one were selected at random, what is the probability that it will be a cookie of the new flavor?

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Answer:

1/9 probability

Explanation:

The total cookies are 36 and the new flavors are 4, if you simplify 4/36, it equals 1/9

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