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A student is randomly selected from a large college. Define the events C = {the student owns a cell phone} and I = {the student owns an iPod}.
-Suppose you know that your friend's sister, who attends this college, owns a cell phone and you are wondering what would be the chance that she owns an iPod. What type of probability would this be?
A) A probability of independent events.
B) A probability of dependent events.
C) A conditional probability.
D) A probability of disjoint events.

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 A student is randomly selected from a large college. Define the events C = {the student owns a cell phone} and I = {the student owns an iPod}.
-Suppose you know that your friend's sister, who attends this college, owns a cell phone and you are wondering what would be the chance that she owns an iPod. What type of probability would this be?
A) A probability of independent events.
B) A probability of dependent events.
C) A conditional probability.
D) A probability of disjoint events.

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This is a conditional probability because it involves determining the probability of one event (owning an iPod) given that another event has occurred (owning a cell phone).

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