The results of Fortune Personnel Consultants’ survey of 405 workers was reported in USA Today. One of the questions in the survey asked, “Do you feel it’s OK for your company to monitor your Internet use?”

The possible responses were: (1) Only after informing me, (2) Does not need to inform me, (3) Only when company believes I am misusing, (4) Company does not have right, and (5) Only if I have previously misused. The following table contains the results for the 405 respondents:

Response 1 2 3 4 5 Number of Respondents 223 130 32 14 6

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.