Sample Event Depended Independent Expiremental

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
You flip a coin and then roll a fair six-sided die. The coin lands heads-up and the die shows a one.

• Independent Events
• Dependent Events

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
A bag contains eight red marbles and four blue marbles. You randomly pick a marble and then pick a second marble without returning the marbles to the bag. 

• Independent Events
• Dependent Events

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
A cooler contains ten bottles of sports drink: four lemon-lime flavored, three orange flavored, and three fruit-punch flavored. You grab a bottle and then your friend asks for a bottle and then another friend asks for a bottle.

• Independent Events
• Dependent Events

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
A box of chocolates contains five milk chocolates, five dark chocolates, and five white chocolates. You randomly select and eat three chocolates. The first piece is milk chocolate, the second is dark chocolate, and the third is white chocolate marbles to the bag. 

• Independent Events
• Dependent Events

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
A bag contains eight red marbles and four blue marbles. You randomly pick a marble and then pick a second marble after returning the first marble to the bag. 

• Independent Events
• Dependent Events

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
A cooler contains ten bottles of sports drink: four lemon-lime flavored, three orange flavored, and three fruit-punch flavored. Three times, you randomly grab a bottle, return the bottle to the cooler, and then mix up the bottles.

• Independent Events
• Dependent Events

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
You and your 2 siblings are drawing straws to see who has to mow the lawn.  Short straw loses.

• Independent Events
• Dependent Events

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
A basket contains five apples and seven peaches. You randomly select one piece of fruit and eat it. Then you randomly select another piece of fruit to take to school. 

• Independent Events
• Dependent Events

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
Amy plays card games.  She picks a card at random.  Then without putting the first card back, he picks a second card at random.

• Independent
• Dependent

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
The spinner is spun twice.  What is the probability that it lands on red first and then blue?

• Independent
• Dependent