Question

students in a fifth grade class are writing reports on famous inventors each student may choose one inventor from list the teacher does not want any repeats Marvin chooses first followed by Deb

Answer 1

Given the question in the image, the following are the solution steps to answer the question.

STEP 1: Define dependent and independent events

Dependent events influence the probability of other events – or their probability of occurring is affected by other events. Independent events do not affect one another and do not increase or decrease the probability of another event happening.

STEP 2: Answer the question.

Given the scenario where the teacher does not want any repeat, this implies that no two students can write about the same inventor. This therefore means that once a student has chosen an inventor on the list, another student can not choose this inventor, hence, the probability of one event is being affected by the probability of another event.

Therefore, the two events are dependent