Question

Meredith buys a bag of cookies that contains 9 chocolate chip cookies, 5 peanut butter cookies, 6 sugar cookies and 7

oatmeal cookies.
What is the probability that Meredith reaches in the bag and randomly selects a peanut butter cookie from the bag, eats it,
then reaches back in the bag and randomly selects an oatmeal cookie?

Answer 1

2

Explanation:

Answer 2

Peanut=5/17

Oatmeal=7/17

Explanation:

9 chocolate

5 peanut

7 oatmeal

So let's add up

5+7+5

17

Peanut=5/17

So the probability for peanut is 5/17

Oatmeal=7/17

So the probability for oatmeal is 7/17