Belleville high school offers classes on three different foreign languages. let a be the event that a student is in eleventh grade, and let b be the event that a student is enrolled in french class. which statement is true about whether a and b are independent events? a and b are independent events because p(a∣b) = p(a). a and b are independent events because p(a∣b) = p(b). a and b are not independent events because p(a∣b) ≠ p(a). a and b are not independent events because p(a∣b) ≠ p(b).