Tom buys a bag of cookies that contains 9 chocolate chip cookies, 9 peanut butter cookies, 4 sugarcookies and 7 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Tom randomly selects a chocolatechip cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another chocolate chip cookie? Express youranswer as a reduced fraction.

Given,no.of chocolate chip cookies=9no.of peanut butter cookies=9no.of suger cookies=4no.of oatmeal…

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