Dependent events <em>depends</em> on earlier events to decide if it is used or not.
An example of a dependent event can be the choice of ice cream. Before the person is asked what ice cream they want, they may have been asked what dessert they want. The event of "asking for a choice of ice cream", is dependent on the person stating that they wanted ice cream in the beginning. If they said anything else, they would not get to that question.
