A survey of 490 workers included the question “In your opinion, is it OK for a company to monitor its employees’ Internet use?” The possible responses were:

(1) Only after informing the employees, (2) Does not need to inform the employees, (3) Only when company believes an employee is misusing the Internet, (4)

Company does not have the right, and (5) Only if an employee has previously misused the Internet. The following table contains the results for the respondents:

Response 1 2 3 4 5 Number of Respondents 150 206 109 11 14

a. Calculate the probability that a randomly chosen respondent would indicate that there should be some restriction concerning the company’s right to monitor Internet use.

b. Indicate the method of probability assessment used to determine the probability in part a.

c. Are the events that a randomly selected respondent chose response 1 and that another randomly selected respondent chose response 2 independent, mutually exclusive, or dependent events? Explain.