Suppose you have an urn containing two blue balls numbered 1 and 2, five yellow balls numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and three black balls numbered 8, 9, 10.

Is the event "drawing a blue ball" independent from the event "drawing an even-numbered ball"?

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Suppose you have an urn containing two blue balls numbered 1 and 2, five yellow balls numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and three black balls numbered 8, 9, 10.
 
Is the event "drawing a blue ball" independent from the event "drawing an even-numbered ball"?

anonymous · Answer

if someone could explain how you determine something to be "independent", that'd be super helpful.

anonymous · Answer

if all the blue balls were odd numbered, we wud call it 'independent'