You Know That the Probability of a Randomly Selected Student

question 120

Multiple Choice

You know that the probability of a randomly selected student will cheat on an exam is 1%. You also know that the probability of a randomly selected student will cheat on an exam knowing that his/her fellow classmate is cheating on the exam is also 1%. Which of the following is true about the event of "the randomly selected student cheating on an exam" and "his/her classmate is cheating on the exam"?

• A) They are mutually exclusive.
• B) They are collectively exhaustive.
• C) They are statistically independent.
• D) None of the above.

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