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A hotel has two different ice machines that fill buckets of ice independently of each other. Let A represent the amount of ice in a bucket filled by machine A, and let B represent the amount of ice in a bucket filled by machine B. Which of the following choices explains the meaning of independent random variables in context?

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C.) The independence of the two ice machines means that knowing how much one machine fills does not help us predict how much the other fills.

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