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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? |
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There are six different numbers on a number cube. Suppose you roll a red number cube and a black number cube. What is the probability of rolling a 3 on the red number cube and a five on the black number cube? |
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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? |
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12 |
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24 |
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16 |
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8 |
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A history teacher has a stack of four different books. How many ways can these books be stacked? |
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48 |
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12 |
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4 |
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24 |
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Ten points are located on a circle. How many line segments can be drawn with these points as endpoints? |
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90 |
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45 |
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10 |
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100 |
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There are 4 white marbles, 6 red marbles, and 2 blue marbles. Once a marble is selected, it is not replaced. Find the probability of selecting 2 blue marbles. |
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Roberto wants to take a survey on favorite foods. Which sample would give the most appropriate results? |
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A poll of 30 customers at a steak house. |
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A poll of 30 customers at a fast food restaurant. |
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A poll of 30 customers at a pizza restaurant. |
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A random telephone poll of 30 people. |
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A bag contains 3 red marbles, 2 white marbles, and 7 blue marbles. If a marble is chosen at random, what is the probability of selecting a white marble? |
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How many different 5-card hands can be drawn from a standard deck of 52 playing cards? |
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2,598,960 |
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260 |
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5,197,920 |
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62,375,040 |
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A marble bag contains 3 red marbles, 4 gray marbles, 6 white marbles, and 5 black marbles. What is the probability of randomly drawing a red marble and then a gray marble if the first marble is replaced? |
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What is the theoretical probability of rolling a number cube two times and getting a 3 on both occasions? |
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A bag contains 5 green marbles, 4 black marbles, and 2 white marbles. The table shows the results of random drawings of marbles with replacement. What is the theoretical and experimental probability of drawing a black marble? |
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The week before an election, a telephone poll was conducted to see how registered voters would vote for Issue 1. The table shows the results of the five-day poll. What percent of registered voters said they would vote yes on Issue 1? |
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67% |
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76% |
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58.05% |
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41.95% |
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Find P(10, 3). |
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120 |
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720 |
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90 |
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6 |
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