Home > CCG > Chapter 10 > Lesson 10.3.5 > Problem 10-176
Of the students who choose to live on campus at Coastal College,
Represent these probabilities in a two-way table.
Ocean View
Not Ocean View
Senior
Not Senior
What is the probability that a randomly selected resident of the OceanView dorm is a senior?
Compare the percentage of seniors who live in OceanView to the percentage of total students who live in OceanView.
Use the alternative definition of independence (see the Math Notes box in Lesson 10.2.3) to determine if being a senior is associated with living in the Ocean View dorm.
If events
and are independent, then .
The converse of this statement is also true:, then and are independent.