Question

Suppose a day from this city is selected at random. Let

event A = heavy traffic and event B = bad weather. Are


events A and B independent?

Answer 1

The two events are not independent

Explanation:

Two events are said to be independent only when the change in one event affect the other event.

Here the two given events are not independent.

Band weathers such as heavy rainfall, snowfall etc. leads to failure of traffic management system and thereby causes heavy traffic. This is easily seen in all major urban cities.

Hence, the two events are not independent as the traffic is affected by the weather conditions.