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

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Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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Skyler buys a bag of cookies that contains 8 chocolate chip
cookies, 5 peanut butter cookies, 8 sugar cookies and 9
oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Skyler
randomly selects a sugar cookie from the bag, eats it, then
randomly selects another sugar cookie? Express your answer
as a reduced fraction.
Transcribed Image Text:Skyler buys a bag of cookies that contains 8 chocolate chip cookies, 5 peanut butter cookies, 8 sugar cookies and 9 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Skyler randomly selects a sugar cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another sugar cookie? Express your answer as a reduced fraction.
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