Dakota buys a bag of cookies that contains 7 chocolate chip cookies, 5 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar cookies and 9 oatmeal cookies. What is the probability that Dakota reaches in the bag and randomly selects a sugar cookie from the bag, eats it, then reaches back in the bag and randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie?   Give your answer as a fraction, or accurate to at least 4 decimal places.

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Dakota buys a bag of cookies that contains 7 chocolate chip cookies, 5 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar cookies and 9 oatmeal cookies.

What is the probability that Dakota reaches in the bag and randomly selects a sugar cookie from the bag, eats it, then reaches back in the bag and randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie?

 

Give your answer as a fraction, or accurate to at least 4 decimal places.

 

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