You reach into a bin of DVDs on sale at the drugstore and randomly pull one out and place it in your shopping basket. Then you reach in and randomly pull out another. Are the events independent or dependent? Why?

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Noe Navarro

4 September, 23:10

You reach into a bin of DVDs on sale at the drugstore and randomly pull one out and place it in your shopping basket. Then you reach in and randomly pull out another. Are the events independent or dependent? Why?

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Carmen · Answer 1

Those events are dependent. Once you take out a DVD, you don't put it back, which means for the second DVD, there are less dvd's than there were you took the first one, meaning that there is a greater chance of you getting a specific DVD for your second one.