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12. A bakery has five different types of cookies in its display case as listed.

. Chocolate chip
. Oatmeal raisin
• Peanut butter
• Sugar
• Macadamia nut
If Cameron selects one cookie from the display case at random, what is the probability that it will be a peanut butter or sugar cookie?

User Besa
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2/5 is the fraction and 0.40 as a decimal:) I hope this helps! I hope you’re having a good day/night<3
User Krsyoung
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Answer:

2/5

Explanation:

Information we need to solve

  • Portion of peanut butter cookies
  • Portion of sugar cookies
  • Total number of cookies

Probaility

  • No. of sugar and peanut butter cookies / Total cookies
  • 1 + 1 / 5
  • 2/5
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