1.   A marketing company is conducting a survey to determine America's most popular professional football team. Where would they be most likely to obtain a random sample?
    A. in front of the White House
    B. Chicago's O'Hare Airport
    C. by calling people from around the country on the telephone
    D. at a Cleveland Browns game
    Hint

  2.   Suppose you want to determine the favorite food of students in your school. Which would not provide a random sample?
    A. surveying customers at a nearby hamburger stand
    B. surveying every tenth student on the school roster
    C. surveying three students from each homeroom class
    D. surveying every fifth student to enter the school in the morning
    Hint

  3.   Callie conducted a survey to determine students' favorite color. Of the students she surveyed, 18 out of 48 preferred blue. If there are 600 students in her school, how many would you expect to prefer blue?
    A. 320 B. 225
    C. 240 D. 200
    Hint

  4.   Rosa conducted a survey of students' favorite types of music. The results are shown in the table. Of the 550 students in the whole school, how many would you expect to prefer Pop/Rock?
   
    A. 396 B. 154
    C. 264 D. 132
    Hint

  5.   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 red balls in the bag.
    A. 9 B. 1
    C. 3 D. 5
    Hint



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