1.   A bag contains 4 green marbles, 3 red marbles and 3 blue marbles. Sharon picks a marble without looking. What is the probability that she will pick a red marble?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  2.   A pin is dropped at random onto the square below. The point of the pin lands on one of the small regions. What is the probability that the point lands inside a blue region?
   
    A. B.
    C. 1 D. 0
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  3.   Members of a soccer team have blue shorts, green shorts, and yellow shorts. They also have orange jerseys, white jerseys, brown jerseys, and black jerseys. How many different uniforms can they wear?
    A. 6 B. 9
    C. 15 D. 12
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  4.   A restaurant offers a choice of four types of pasta with two types of sauce. Each pasta entrée comes with or without a meatball. How many possible entrées are there?
    A. 8 B. 16
    C. 24 D. 12
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  5.   The local Humane Society needs to select 2 out of 4 cats to feature in a newspaper advertisement. One will appear in the Saturday paper, and the other will appear in the Sunday paper. How many ways can the cats be selected?
    A. 12 B. 16
    C. 24 D. 2
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  6.   Suppose a number cube is rolled twice. What is the probability that an odd number will show both times?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  7.   A coin is tossed and a number cube is rolled. Find the probability,
P(heads and 7).
    A. B.
    C. 0 D.
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  8.   If you roll a number cube, what is the theoretical probability of rolling a 6?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  9.   What percent of those surveyed chose jazz as their favorite music?
   
    A. about 11% B. about 28%
    C. about 36% D. about 26%
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  10.   Roberto wants to take a survey on favorite foods. Which sample would give the most appropriate results?
    A. A random telephone poll of 30 people.
    B. A poll of 30 customers at a pizza restaurant.
    C. A poll of 30 customers at a fast food restaurant.
    D. A poll of 30 customers at a steak house.
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  11.   Eight points are located on a circle. How many line segments can be drawn with these points as endpoints?
    A. 4 B. 16
    C. 28 D. 56
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  12.   Consider all of the five-digit numbers that can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 where no digit is used twice. Find the probability that one of these numbers picked at random is an even number.
    A. 80% B. 60%
    C. 40% D. 20%
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  13.   There are 20 students in student council. Three of these students are picked to be on a committee to plan the spring dance. Does this represent a combination or a permutation? How many possible committees can be formed?
    A. combination; 6,840 committees B. permutation; 6,840 committees
    C. permutation; 1,140 committees D. combination; 1,140 committees
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  14.   Four-hundred fifty teenagers were asked whether they purchased certain items in the last month. The table gives the results of the survey. What is the experimental probability that a teenager has bought a music CD in the last month?
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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