Question

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

Answer 1

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.