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3.4 Exercise 4

Avg difficulty 2.5

b. Are the events being female and preferring the coastline independent events?

Let F = being female and let C = preferring the coastline.

  1. Find P(F AND C).
  2. Find P(F)P(C).

Are these two numbers the same? If they are, then F and C are independent. If they are not, then F and C are not independent.

OpenStax Statistics, 3.4 Contingency Tables, exercise 4

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