1.   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 yellow or green region?
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  2.   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. 24
    C. 12 D. 16
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  3.   What is the probability of tossing a coin four times and getting tails each time?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  4.   If you roll a number cube 12,000 times, predict the number of times you would roll a 6.
    A. 6,000 B. 2,000
    C. 1,000 D. 3,000
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  5.   A card is drawn at random from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability of drawing a Jack, Queen, or King?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  6.   A race consists of ten runners. How many ways can the runners finish first, second, and third?
    A. 720 B. 30
    C. 504 D. 1,000
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  7.   How many different 3-item pizzas can be made from 12 items?
    A. 660 B. 440
    C. 36 D. 220
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  8.   Eight points are located on a circle. How many line segments can be drawn with these points as endpoints?
    A. 28 B. 4
    C. 16 D. 56
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  9.   When randomly drawing from a standard deck of 52 playing cards, what is the probability of drawing a 9 four times in a row if the cards are not replaced?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  10.   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. If 10,000 people vote on election day, how many should be expected to vote no on Issue 1?
   
    A. 7,125 B. 4,195
    C. 3,300 D. 5,805
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  11.   A ‘’word’’ is made up of three letters from a to z chosen at random. What is the probability that the word is cat?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  12.   Consider all of the six-digit numbers that can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 where no digit is used twice. Find the probability that one of these numbers picked at random is between 100,000 and 300,000.
    A. 24% B. 16%
    C. 40% D. 33%
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  13.   Three hundred people were asked whether they liked certain types of music. The table gives the results of the survey. What is the experimental probability that a person likes jazz?
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  14.   To determine if a certain assembly line is producing quality radios, an employee checks every thirtieth radio leaving the assembly line. Describe the sample used by the employee.
    A. The sample is biased because it is a voluntary response sample.
    B. The sample is unbiased because it is a systematic random sample.
    C. The sample is biased because it is a convenience sample.
    D. The sample is unbiased because it is a stratified random sample.
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