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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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Since,P(B | A)= P(B)= 0.30,A a...

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