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. by calling people from around the country on the telephone
    C. in front of the White House
    D. Chicago's O'Hare Airport
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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 the winners of the school science fair
    B. asking the members of the after-school art club
    C. asking your 3 best friends
    D. asking 4 students from each homeroom class
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  3.   Callie conducted a survey to determine students' favorite color. Of the students she surveyed, 18 out of 48 preferred blue. If there are 600 students in her school, how many would you expect to prefer blue?
    A. 200 B. 225
    C. 320 D. 240
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  4.   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. 560 B. 150
    C. 1,050 D. 750
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  5.   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. 154 B. 132
    C. 396 D. 264
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