Lucas buys a bag of cookies that contains 5 chocolate chip cookies, 9 peanut butter cookies, 8 sugar cookies and 6 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Lucas randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another chocolate chip cookie? Express your answer as a reduced fraction.

Lucas buys a bag of cookies that contains 5 chocolate chip cookies, 9 peanut butter cookies, 8 sugar cookies and 6 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Lucas randomly selects a chocolate chip cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another chocolate chip cookie? Express your answer as a reduced fraction.

College Algebra (MindTap Course List)

12th Edition

ISBN:9781305652231

Author:R. David Gustafson, Jeff Hughes

Publisher:R. David Gustafson, Jeff Hughes

Chapter8: Sequences, Series, And Probability

Section8.7: Probability

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