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Melissa has a bag of marbles. In the bag, there are eight blue marbles, two yellow marbles, two green marbles, and four red marbles. The probability that Melissa randomly draws a blue marble and then a red marble is ⅛ when she puts the first marble back in.

Determine if the event of drawing a blue marble and the event of drawing a red marble are independent, dependent, both, or neither.


Independent

Dependent

Both

Neither

User Venky Vungarala
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The answer is dependent
User Jeroen Wienk
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I think it is dependent
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