Question

A lotion display includes a variety of tester bottles. Tiana walks by and decides to sniff one ofthe tester bottles. Later on, Logan passes the display and also decides to smell one of thelotions.Are these two events dependent or independent?dependentindependent

Answer 1

We have that two events are independent if the outcome of the second event is not affected by the outcome of the first event.

In this case, the second event is not affected by the outcome of the first event, so they are independent.

Answer: Independent