1.   Suppose you want to determine the favorite food of students in your school. Which would not provide a random sample?
    A. surveying every fifth student to enter the school in the morning
    B. surveying customers at a nearby hamburger stand
    C. surveying three students from each homeroom class
    D. surveying every tenth student on the school roster
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  2.   If you are conducting a survey to determine people's favorite actor, at which location should you not conduct your survey?
    A. in front of a theater on opening night of the latest comedy B. video store
    C. grocery store D. post office
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  3.   Meng conducted a survey to determine the favorite flavor of ice cream in his hometown. Fifteen of the fifty people he surveyed liked strawberry best. How many of the 3,500 residents in the town would you expect to like strawberry best?
    A. 750 B. 150
    C. 560 D. 1,050
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  4.   Suppose you wanted to survey the favorite music of people in your school. Which method would produce a random sample?
    A. surveying your best friends
    B. surveying the kids in your home room
    C. surveying the kids at one table at lunch
    D. surveying a group of people outside of a country music concert
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  5.   Anna conducted a survey of the number of people in her yoga class with glasses or contacts. The people in the yoga classes were randomly distributed, and there were 256 people in all the classes. If Anna counted 24 out of 32 people in her class with glasses or contacts, how many people would be expected to have glasses or contacts in all the classes?
    A. 425 people B. 212 people
    C. 192 people D. 341 people
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