Question

A cookie jar contains several cookies:

• 12 chocolate chip cookies
8 peanut butter cookies
.4 sugar cookies
Jace randomly selected a cookie from the jar.
What is the probability in decimal form that the cookie Jace selected was a chocolate chip cookie?

Answer 1

.50 chance that she gets a chocolate chip cookie or 50 percent.

Explanation:

half of all the cookies in the jar are chocolate chip cookies. 12/24 meaning that there is a 50/50 chance that she'll get a chocolate chip cookie

.50