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Suppose that a 3 of spades is drawn from a deck of cards. Let A = the event that the next card drawn is a heart and B = the event that the next card drawn is an ace. Is the following statement true or false?

Events A and B are independent.

a. true
b. false

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After we drew 3 of spades we are left with 51 cards.
Of these 51 cards, 13 are hearts and four are ...

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