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Two number cubes are rolled. What is the probability that their sum is 6? |
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A restaurant offers 6 appetizers, 4 salads, 8 entrees, and 5 desserts. Find the number of possible meals that include one item from each course. |
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5760 |
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2880 |
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960 |
D. |
11,520 |
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A cooler contains 5 cans of each flavor of soft drink: cola, lemon-lime, grape, and root beer. Find the probability of one person randomly picking a cola, then another person randomly selecting root beer. |
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From a group of six students, four are to be chosen to form a committee. In how many ways can the committee be chosen? |
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A. |
360 |
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30 |
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C. |
15 |
D. |
720 |
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An ordinary six-sided die is rolled. What is the probability that a number greater than four is rolled? |
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6. |
Five coins are tossed. How many outcomes are there? |
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16 |
B. |
32 |
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10 |
D. |
20 |
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Five coins are tossed. How many outcomes have either four heads or four tails? |
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You want to buy a car. You have a choice of 5 different dealerships. Each dealership carries 3 different car companies. Each company provides 10 different models. Each model has 7 different colors. If you must choose one dealership, one company, one model, and one optional package, how many different cars do you have the opportunity to buy? |
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A. |
320 |
B. |
625 |
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C. |
4,096 |
D. |
1,050 |
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A friend of yours has 26 slips of paper, one with each letter of the alphabet on it. You randomly select six of them, not replacing any. What is the probability that all six letters that you choose are consonants ('y' is a consonant, not a vowel)? |
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10. |
Compute 5! |
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A. |
15 |
B. |
120 |
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C. |
720 |
D. |
60 |
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Two number cubes are rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the two number cubes is less than 9? |
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12. |
Evaluate 6! · 6!. |
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25,920 |
B. |
479,001,600 |
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C. |
518,400 |
D. |
1,440 |
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13. |
Which situation is a combination? |
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The number of ways 50 people can line up to enter a concert hall. |
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The number of ways a committee can choose a president, vice-president, and treasurer. |
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The number of ways a coach can choose 3 co-captains for a soccer team. |
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The number of ways 3 books can be displayed in a store window. |
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A nickel is tossed 550 times and heads came up 300 times. What is the experimental probability of tossing tails? |
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