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A cookie jar contains six chocolate chip cookies, four peanut butter cookies and five oatmeal cookies Two cookies are chosen from the jar What are the odds against both chosen cookies being chocolate chip cookies? Write your ratio in lowest terms. (ex: 3.2)

Answer :

The odds that the chosen cookies being chocolate chip cookies is 1/7

What is probability?

The area of mathematics known as probability deals with numerical representations of the likelihood that an event will occur or that a statement is true. An event's probability is a number between 0 and 1, where, roughly speaking, 0 denotes the event's impossibility and 1 denotes certainty.

We are given that

A cookie jar contains six chocolate chip cookies, four peanut butter cookies and five oatmeal cookies

Hence the total number of cookies are 15

Two cookies are selected from the jar

This can be done in 15c2 ways that is 105

Now we have six Choco chip cookies in the same jar

Number of ways in which we can select 2 cookies is 6c2

That is 15

Hence the odds are 15/105

That is 1/7.

The odds that the chosen cookies being chocolate chip cookies is 1/7.

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https://brainly.com/question/24756209

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