
A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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Author: Sheldon Ross
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A box of cookies contains 4 chocolate and 6 butter cookies. Miguel randomly selects a cookie and eats it. Then he randomly selects another cookie and eats it. (How many cookies did he take?)
- Draw the tree that represents the possibilities for the cookie selections. Write the probabilities along each branch of the tree. (Let B be the
event that he selected a butter cookie, and let C be the event that he selected a chocolate cookie. Enter your probabilities as fractions.)
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