Use the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

question 39

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer the question(s) below.
A government agency has 6000 employees. As an alternative to the traditional five day work week, employees were asked whether they preferred a four-day work week (10 hours per day) or flexible hours. The table below shows the results by age category.

-Two events F = {a randomly selected employee prefers flex hours} and O = {a randomly selected employee is over 45 years old} are

• A) independent.
• B) mutually exclusive.
• C) not independent.
• D) independent and mutually exclusive.
• E) disjoint.

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Maturation

The process of becoming mature; the biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, mostly independent of experience.

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A stage in language acquisition during infancy, where infants produce sounds and syllables that do not form recognizable words but are important for language development.

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A form of communication seen in young children during language development, characterized by simple, essential words without grammatical markers.

Phonemes

The smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish words.