1.   A spinner numbered 1 through 10 is spun 100 times. The results of the experiment are shown in the table below. What is the experimental probability of spinning an 8?
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  2.   The daily special at the House of Pies offers one of three featured pies and your choice of coffee, tea, milk or juice. How many ways can you order the special?
    A. 12 B. 7
    C. 8 D. 15
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  3.   A minor-league baseball team had three players tryout for each of the nine positions. How many ways could the team be formed?
    A. 729 B. 19,683
    C. 27 D. 6561
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  4.   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.
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  5.   Find the number of ways a family of 4 can stand next to each other for a photograph.
    A. 10 B. 120
    C. 76 D. 24
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  6.   From a group of six students, four are to be chosen to form a committee. In how many ways can the committee be chosen?
    A. 30 B. 360
    C. 720 D. 15
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  7.   How many ways can 3 CDs be selected from a stack of 7 different CDs?
    A. 5040 B. 245
    C. 35 D. 6
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  8.   A certain sandwich shop allows you to pick any combination of their 8 toppings. How many different combinations are there?
    A. 16 B. 40,320
    C. 256 D. 1,024
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  9.   Your friend has 26 slips of paper, one with each letter of the alphabet on it, and you pick three slips at random, allowing your friend to replace them randomly in the stack. What is the probability that you will choose the letter 'd' the first time, the letter 'o' the second time, and the letter 'g' the third time?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  10.   Use the spinner to find P(not 5). Write as a fraction in simplest form.
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  11.   Use the spinner to find P(not prime). Write as a fraction in simplest form.
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  12.   The Millers’ have four children. What is the probability that the first three children were boys and the fourth child was a girl? Assume that the chance of having either a boy or a girl is 50%.
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  13.   Evaluate 6! · 6!.
    A. 518,400 B. 479,001,600
    C. 25,920 D. 1,440
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  14.   The spinner below was spun 250 times and 5 came up 20 times. What is the experimental probability of spinning a 5?
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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