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. 0
    C. 1 D.
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  3.   A history teacher has a stack of four different books. How many ways can these books be stacked?
    A. 4 B. 48
    C. 12 D. 24
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  4.   What is the probability of tossing a coin four times and getting tails each time?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  5.   A music store surveyed some of their customers. What fraction chose country as their favorite type of music?
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  6.   What percent of those surveyed chose jazz as their favorite music?
   
    A. about 28% B. about 36%
    C. about 11% D. about 26%
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  7.   How many outcomes are possible from choosing a card from a standard deck of playing cards, rolling a die, and tossing a coin?
    A. 312 B. 208
    C. 60 D. 624
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  8.   Given a standard deck of 52 playing cards, what is the probability of randomly drawing a 2 and then a 3 if the first card is not replaced?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  9.   What is the theoretical probability of tossing a coin three times and getting heads on all three tosses?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  10.   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?
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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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.   Find P(10, 3).
    A. 720 B. 6
    C. 120 D. 90
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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; 1,140 committees B. permutation; 1,140 committees
    C. combination; 6,840 committees D. permutation; 6,840 committees
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  14.   There are 23 students in Mr. Blackwell’s science class. Five students are picked to talk to the elementary students who will be coming to the middle school next year. Does this represent a combination or a permutation? How many ways can the students be chosen?
    A. combination; 4,037,880 ways B. permutation; 4,037,880
    C. combination; 33,649 ways D. permutation; 33,649 ways
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