1.   A marketing company is conducting a survey to determine America's most popular professional football team. Where would they be most likely to obtain a random sample?
    A. at a Cleveland Browns game
    B. Chicago's O'Hare Airport
    C. in front of the White House
    D. by calling people from around the country on the telephone
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  2.   Suppose you are conducting a survey to determine whether the students in your school would prefer to go to the science museum or the art museum for the school field trip. Which method would produce a random sample?
    A. asking 4 students from each homeroom class
    B. asking your 3 best friends
    C. asking the members of the after-school art club
    D. asking the winners of the school science fair
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  3.   If you are conducting a survey to determine people's favorite actor, at which location should you not conduct your survey?
    A. post office B. video store
    C. in front of a theater on opening night of the latest comedy D. grocery store
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  4.   Rosa conducted a survey of students' favorite types of music. The results are shown in the table. Of the 550 students in the whole school, how many would you expect to prefer Pop/Rock?
   
    A. 264 B. 396
    C. 154 D. 132
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  5.   Liz conducted a survey of the number of kids in her school who would join a charity work club if she started one. She surveyed 75 kids and 30 said they would join. If there were 165 kids in her grade, how many could she expect to join?
    A. 46 kids B. 23 kids
    C. 66 kids D. 132 kids
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