Given:
Shannon buys a bag of cookies that contains 6 chocolate chip cookies, 7 peanut butter cookies, 4 sugar cookies and 6 oatmeal cookies.
Required:
To find the probability that Shannon reaches in the bag and randomly selects a oatmeal cookies from the bag, eats it, then reaches back in the bag and randomly selects a chocolate chip cookies.
Explanation:
There are total 23 cookies.
P(select oatmeal cookies from the bag, eats it, then reaches back in the bag and randomly selects a chocolate chip cookies.) =
[tex]\begin{gathered} =(\frac{6}{23})\times(\frac{6}{22}) \\ \\ =\frac{36}{506} \\ \\ =0.07114 \end{gathered}[/tex]
Final Answer:
The proba0.0711
