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document.write( "1. During the last hour, a salesman dialed 25 numbers and reached 7 busy signals, 3 answering machines, and 15 people. Use this information to determine the empirical probability that the next call will be answered in person. \r
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document.write( "2. If you roll a dice many times, what would you expect to be the relative frequency of rolling a number less than 5? \r
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document.write( "A) 2 out of 3 B) 1 out of 3 C) 1 out of 6 D) 1 out of 2
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document.write( "E) 5 out of 6\r
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document.write( "3. A jar contains 4 yellow gumballs, 12 green gumballs, and 11 black gumballs. If one gumball is selected at random, what is the probability that it is not yellow? \r
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document.write( "4. One card is selected at random from a standard 52-card deck of playing cards. Find the probability that the card selected is a king. \r
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document.write( "5. The odds against Thunderbolt winning the Alabama Derby are 11:3. Find the probability that Thunderbolt wins.\r
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document.write( "A) 3/11 B) 3/14 C) 8/11 D) 8/14 E) 3/8\r
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document.write( "6. 500 tickets for prizes are sold for $2 each. Five prizes will be awarded – one for $300, one for $200, and three for $50. Sam purchases one of the tickets. \r
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document.write( "a) Find the expected value
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document.write( "b) Find the fair price of the ticket.
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document.write( "7. Two basketballs are to be selected without replacement from a bag containing one red, one blue, one green, and one yellow basketball. How many points are there in the sample space? \r
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document.write( "8. A license plate is to consist of three letters followed by two digits. How many different license plates are possible if the first letter must be a vowel (a, e, i, o, u), and repetition of letters is not permitted, but repetition of digits is permitted? \r
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document.write( "9. A businessman has 7 pairs of pants, 9 shirts, and 4 ties. How many different outfits can he wear? \r
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document.write( "10. A specific brand of bicycle comes in two frames, for males or females. Each frame comes in a choice of three colors, red, white, and blue, and with a choice of three seats, soft, medium, and hard. \r
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document.write( "a)Use the counting principle to determine the number of different arrangements of bicycles that are possible.
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document.write( "b)Construct a tree diagram illustrating all the different arrangements of bicycles that are possible.
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document.write( "c)List the sample space. \r
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document.write( "11. The results of a survey for an airline are shown below\r
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document.write( "Traveler Male Female Total
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document.write( "Business 47 72 119
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document.write( "Vacation 71 64 135
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document.write( "Total 118 136 254\r
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document.write( "Use the chart to find the probability that the traveler was
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document.write( "a) male
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document.write( "b) on vacation given the traveler was female
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document.write( "c) male given the traveler was on vacation \r
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document.write( "12. In how many ways can 6 teachers be assigned to six sections of a course in mathematics? \r
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document.write( "13. At an annual daylilly show, 7 different entries are to be arranged in a row. \r
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document.write( "a) How many different arrangements of the entries are possible?
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document.write( "b) If the owners of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place entries will be awarded prizes of $100, $50, and $25 respectively, how many ways can the prizes be awarded? \r
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document.write( "14. How many different ways are there for an admissions officer to select a group of 6 college candidates from a group of 15 applicants for an interview? \r
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