SOLUTION: The 2010 US Government Census form allow respondents to check any or all of 14 boxes for race. how many possible outcomes are there

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Question 1137238: The 2010 US Government Census form allow respondents to check any or all of 14 boxes for race. how many possible outcomes are there
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For each choice, it is either checked or not checked, hence this problem maps to a string of 14 binary digits ("bits"): there are 2%5E14 possible outcomes.