Lucy has a variety of socks in her laundry basket. Without looking, she selects one sock, then a second.
Are these two events dependent or independent?

This is dependent because it depends what sock she picked out first.  It would be independent if she put the pulled out sock back into the container

  b.   the average rate of change of f(x) is less than the average rate of change of g(x).

step-by-step explanation:

since the length of the interval is the same in each case, we only need to compare the change in y-value to see which is greater.

so the change in y-value for function f is (6 )) = 9.

the table tells us

so the change in y-value for function g is (31 -1) = 30.

the change in y-value of f(x) on the interval is less than the change in y-value of g(x) on the same interval, so the average rate of change of f(x) is less than the average rate of change of g(x).