Emanuel buys a bag of cookies that contains 8 chocolate chip cookies, 7 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar cookies and 9 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Emanuel randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another chocolate chip cookie? (write your answer as a reduced fraction.)

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012
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ISBN:9780547587776
Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL
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Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability
Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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Emanuel buys a bag of cookies that contains 8 chocolate chip cookies, 7 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar cookies and 9 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Emanuel randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another chocolate chip cookie?

(write your answer as a reduced fraction.)

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