Chapter 12 - Data Analysis and Probability - 12-8 Probability of Compound Events - Practice and Problem-Solving Exercises - Page 769: 39

An independent event is not affected by a previous decision. A dependent event is affected by a previous event.

An independent event would be rolling a number cube again after rolling the same number cube. A dependent event would be picking a ball from a bag after picking a first ball from the same bag and not returning the first ball to the bag.