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Sofia is conducting a survey about favorite ice cream flavors. Sofia surveys 9999 random people and then decides to ask one more.\newlineAre these two events dependent or independent?\newlineChoices:\newline(A) dependent\newline(B) independent

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Q. Sofia is conducting a survey about favorite ice cream flavors. Sofia surveys 9999 random people and then decides to ask one more.\newlineAre these two events dependent or independent?\newlineChoices:\newline(A) dependent\newline(B) independent
  1. Surveying People: Sofia has surveyed 9999 random people about their favorite ice cream flavors. The event of asking one more person is independent of the previous surveys because the outcome of the 100100th person's response does not affect or is not affected by the responses of the previous 9999 people. Each person is surveyed independently of the others.
  2. Determining Dependence: To determine if events are dependent or independent, we can consider whether the outcome of one event affects the outcome of the other. In this case, since each person's response is individual and the selection of one person does not change the probability of any particular response from another, the events are independent.

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