1.   What is the upper quartile for the quiz scores?
   
    A. 17 B. 13
    C. 20 D. 12
    Hint

  2.   A red number cube and a blue number cube are tossed. If each number cube is numbered 1 through 6, determine the probability of the red number cube showing a 4 and the blue number cube showing a 2.
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  3.   A set of counters is numbered 1, 2, 3, …, 12. Suppose you draw one counter without looking. What is the probability of choosing a number less than 4?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  4.   Suppose you are conducting a survey to determine whether the students in your school would prefer to go to the science museum or the art museum for the school field trip. Which method would produce a random sample?
    A. asking your 3 best friends
    B. asking the members of the after-school art club
    C. asking the winners of the school science fair
    D. asking 4 students from each homeroom class
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  5.   Jack and Thomas have two chips. One is red on both sides and one is red on one side and blue on the other side. Each boy tosses a chip. Jack scores one point if both chips are the same. Thomas scores one point if the chips are different. What is the probability that Jack will score a point?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  6.   Jack and Thomas have two chips. One is red on both sides and one is red on one side and blue on the other side. Each boy tosses a chip. Jack scores one point if both chips are the same. Thomas scores one point if the chips are different. Change the scoring so that the game is fair.
    A. Jack scores 1 point if the chips are the same. Thomas scores 3 points if the chips are different.
    B. Jack scores 2 points if the chips are the same. Thomas scores 2 points if the chips are different.
    C. Jack scores 2 points if the chips are the same. Thomas scores 3 point if the chips are different.
    D. Jack scores 3 points if the chips are the same. Thomas scores 2 points if the chips are different.
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  7.   Taylor and Isabel played a game with red, blue, white, and green balls. They had a bag with 10 balls. They took 4 samples of 4 balls at a time.
Sample 1: RRBB
Sample 2: BGRR
Sample 3: RWRB
Sample 4: RGBW
Find the best estimate of the number of blue balls in the bag.
    A. 3 B. 0
    C. 6 D. 8
    Hint

  8.   What is the third quartile of this set of test scores?
63, 72, 74, 83, 91, 92, 95
    A. 72 B. 70
    C. 92 D. 93
    Hint



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