Heather buys a bag of cookies that contains 8 chocolate chip cookies, 7 peanut butter cookies, 9 sugar cookies and 4 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Heather randomly selects an oatmeal raisin cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another oatmeal raisin cookie? Express your answer as a reduced fraction.

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Heather buys a bag of cookies that contains 8 chocolate chip cookies, 7 peanut butter cookies, 9 sugar
cookies and 4 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Heather randomly selects an oatmeal
raisin cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another oatmeal raisin cookie? Express your
answer as a reduced fraction.
Transcribed Image Text:Heather buys a bag of cookies that contains 8 chocolate chip cookies, 7 peanut butter cookies, 9 sugar cookies and 4 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Heather randomly selects an oatmeal raisin cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another oatmeal raisin cookie? Express your answer as a reduced fraction.
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