1.   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 the winners of the school science fair
    B. asking your 3 best friends
    C. asking 4 students from each homeroom class
    D. asking the members of the after-school art club
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  2.   If you are conducting a survey to determine people's favorite actor, at which location should you not conduct your survey?
    A. video store B. grocery store
    C. in front of a theater on opening night of the latest comedy D. post office
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  3.   Meng conducted a survey to determine the favorite flavor of ice cream in his hometown. Fifteen of the fifty people he surveyed liked strawberry best. How many of the 3,500 residents in the town would you expect to like strawberry best?
    A. 150 B. 1,050
    C. 750 D. 560
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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. 396 B. 132
    C. 264 D. 154
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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. 66 kids B. 23 kids
    C. 46 kids D. 132 kids
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