Government data show that 26% of the civilian labor force has at least 4 years of college and that 15% of the labor force works as laborers or operators of machines or vehicles. Can you conclude that because (0.26)(0.15) = .039 about 4% of the labor force are college-educated laborers or operators?
(a) Yes, by the multiplication rule
(b) Yes, by conditional probabilities
(c) Yes,bythelawoflargenumbers
(d) No, because the events are not independent
(e) No, because the events are not mutually exclusive
d