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Probability Question?

A corner bakery sells cookie packs with 25 various types. If the probability of choosing a chocolate cookie from the pack is 9/25 what are the odds of randomly choosing a chocolate chip cookie?

How do you solve this problem? Would it be 1-(9/25)?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It sounds like there are 9 chocolate chip cookies out of a total of 25. So there are 16 cookies that are not chocolate chip. Odds are commonly expressed as a ratio. This would be chocolate chip cookies to non-chocolate chip cookies, or: 9:16.

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