A teacher has written types of math problems on slips of paper for her students to present to the class. She puts the slips of paper into a jar and randomly selects 1 for each student. Once the student has read the slip of paper, it is placed back into the jar: The jar has 18 geometry slips, 16 algebra slips, and 14 word problems slips. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The events are independent because replacing the first slip does not affect the probability of selecting the second slip.

B. The events are dependent because replacing the first slip does not affect the probability of selecting the second slip.

C. The events are conditional and the probability is equal to 1.

D. The events are dependent because replacing the first slip affects the probability of selecting the second slip.

E. The events are independent because replacing the first slip affects the probability of selecting the second slip.