THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

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Essay

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
A personnel officer for a firm that employs many part time salespeople tries out a sales aptitude test on several hundred applicants.Because the test is unproven,results are not used in hiring.Forty percent of applicants show high aptitude on the test and 12% of those hired both show high and achieve good sales records.The firm's experience shows that 30% of all salespeople achieve good sales.Let A be the event "shows high aptitude" and let B be the event "achieves good sales".
-Are A and B independent?

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Definitions:

Sexual Response

The physiological and emotional reactions of an individual to sexual stimulation.

Limbic System

A group of structures in the brain associated with emotions and feelings; involved with producing sexual arousal.

Vagus Nerve Network

A system of fibers belonging to the tenth cranial nerve that innervates the heart, lungs, and digestive tract, playing a key role in the autonomic nervous system.

Endocrine System

A network of glands in the body that produces hormones to regulate important bodily functions such as growth, metabolism, and reproduction.