Question

Eric’s mother wants to help him with his math homework. She puts 24 cookies in the cookie jar. 12 of the cookies are chocolate chip, 8 are oatmeal and 4 are peanut butter. She then has Eric select a cookie from the jar without looking. Next, without replacing the first cookie, Eric picks a second cookie without looking in the jar. What is the probability that Eric will pick an oatmeal cookie first and a chocolate chip cookies second?

Answer 1

12% 4% 8%

Explanation:

Answer 2

4/23

Explanation:

there are 8 oatmeal cookies out of the 24 in the jar so the probability of pulling an oatmeal cookie out is 8/24 = 1/3

Then we have 23 cookies in the jar and 12 are chocolate chip

1/3 * 12/23 = 4/23