Describe the difference between independent and dependent events, and explain how their probabilities differ, providing examples
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Sample: the first question, solved
Is choosing a shirt to wear, then separately choosing a snack to eat, independent or dependent?
📘 Worked solution
✓Independent - choosing a shirt has no effect on which snack you choose.
And one from the hard end
Explain why calculating the probability of a dependent 2-step event generally requires recalculating probabilities at each step, unlike a comparable independent scenario.
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