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There are 9 cherry cokes, 3 diet cokes, and 4 coke zeros in a cooler. Selecting a drink and getting a cherry coke, then a coke zero, without replacement makes this probability independent or dependent?

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It is dependent since the probability changes when the first soda is taken out of the cooler
User Edezzie
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It is dependent, since the probability changes when the first soda is taken out.
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