Dependent or Independent

Is the event independent or dependent?

A bag contains 5 striped cubes, 3 dotted cubes, 4 white cubes and 3 red cubes. What is the probability of drawing a red cube, replacing it, and then drawing a white cube?

• independent

• dependent

Is the event independent or dependent?

Your pocket contains 3 pennies, 2 nickels, 1 quarter and 4 dimes. What is the probability of randomly choosing a dime, replacing it, and then drawing a penny?

• independent

• dependent

Is the event independent or dependent?

German has a bag of Skittles™. Inside the bag are 6 red, 4 orange, 7 yellow, 3 purple and 4 green Skittles™. What is the probability of drawing a green Skittle™, replacing it, and then drawing another green Skittle™?

• independent

• dependent

Is the event independent or dependent?

A basket contains 4 green marbles and 8 blue marbles. A marble is drawn without replacement. Then another marble is drawn. What is the probability that both marbles will be green?

• independent

• dependent

Is the event independent or dependent?

You have a jar with 24 pieces of chocolate candy and 14 pieces individually wrapped starburst. We take one piece of candy at random from the jar, put it back, and then take a second piece of candy at random from the jar.

• independent

• dependent

Is the event independent or dependent?

Katana plays card games. She picks a card at random. Then without putting the first card back, she picks a second card at random.

• independent

• dependent

Is the event independent or dependent?

A marble bag contains 3 red marbles, 4 gray marbles, 6 white marbles, and 5 black marbles. What is the probability of randomly drawing a red marble and then a gray marble if the first marble is replaced?

• dependent

• independent

A bag contains 2 striped cubes, 3 dotted cubes, 4 white cubes and 3 red cubes. What is the probability of drawing a white cube, not replacing it, and then drawing a dotted cube?

• dependent

• independent

You are playing a game that requires rolling a die twice. Use a sample space to determine whether rolling a 2 and then a 6 are independent events.

Are the events independent?

• Yes, the events are independent.

• No, the events are not independent.

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?

Amy plays card games. She picks a card at random. Then WITHOUT putting the first card back, he picks a second card at random.

• Independent

• Dependent