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Rob counted the boxes of cereal in a grocery store with different sizes and numbers of prizes. Mini size Regular size Jumbo size 5 3 3 One prize Two prizes 3 4 5 Are the events "the box of cereal contains one prize" and "the box of cereal is regular size" independent? yes no

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The events are independent because there is no evidence of dependece between the events, the box can contain one or two prices or be any size.

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