Question

9. Eric's mother wants to help him with his math homework. She puts 24 cookies in a cookie jar. Twelve (12) of the cookies are chocolate chip, 8 are oatmeal, and 4 are peanut butter. She then has Eric select a cookie from the jar without looking. Next, without replacing the first cookie, Eric picks a second cookie without looking in the jar, What is the probability Eric will pick an oatmeal cookie first and a chocolate chip cookie second?

a) 1/6
b) 4/23
c) 5/6
d) 59/69
23/24 x 22/24????

Please Help!!!!

Answer 1

oatmeal
8/24
pb
4/23

8/24 * 4/23 = 4/69

Answer 2

how did you got 8/24 * 4/23 = "4/69"?????????????????????

8 x 4 = 32
and
24 x 23 = 552

plus it not in one of the answers

but there's 4/23


please help

Answer 3

first test is oatmeal
there are 8 oatmeal cookies out of the 24 in the jar so the probability of pulling an oatmeal cookie out is 8/24 = 1/3

Then we have 23 cookies in the jar and 12 are chocolate chip (sorry I did peanut butter)
so
1/3 * 12/23 = 4/23

Answer 4

thank you

thats weird because when you put 4/69 i knew the answer was 4/23

thanks