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Probability
Chapter Test Form A
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Select the best answer.
1. A musician has 5 songs she can play at an open mic night. How many different ways she can play 2 of them?
A 10 B 20
2. A printer has 8 colors of ink, but can
only pick 3 to use on a pamphlet that
he is printing. How many different color combinations can he choose?
A 24 C 120
B 56 D 336
3. A math class is made up of 11 boys and 10 girls. How many ways can the teacher choose one boy and one girl to solve a problem for the class?
A 110 B 121
4. The graph below shows the number of
boys and the number of girls on a
school’s debate team.
If a student is chosen at random from
the team, what is the probability that the student is a boy?
A 0.4 B 0.6
5. A coin is flipped three times. What is the probability that the result is tails all three times?
A 0.125 C 0.25
B 0.167 D 0.50
6. What is the approximate probability that
a point chosen inside the rectangle is in
the shaded region?
A 0.29 C 0.48
B 0.43 D 0.53
7. A coin and a number cube are tossed
at the same time. What is the probability that the coin shows tails and the number cube shows a 2, 3 or 4?
A 0.25 B 0.50
8. A store is keeping track of the
customers who enter a certain
department and whether or not they
make a purchase. The results are
shown below.
Men / Women
Bought / 7 / 4
Didn’t Buy / 5 / 9
What is the approximate probability
that a customer from this group made a purchase?
A 0.44 B 0.56
9. Use the two-way table from Question 8.
What is the approximate probability
that a man who entered the store did not make a purchase?
A 0.36 C 0.2
B 0.41 D 0.16
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10. Men and Women at a gym were polled to see if they prefer the treadmill or the elliptical machine.
The results of the poll are shown in the two-way table.
Men / 25 / 3
Women / 13 / 44
How many people were polled?
A 85 C 44
B 57 D 28
11. Use the two-way table from Question 12. How many people prefer the elliptical?
A 38 C 47
B 44 D 85
12. Use the two-way table from Question Which of the following statements is true?
A More men were polled than women.
B Most of the women prefer the elliptical.
C Most of the men prefer the elliptical.
D More people prefer the treadmill.
13. Which is the probability that a 1-6
number cube lands on a number
less than 2?
A 0.67 C 0.33
B 0.50 D 0.17
14. Which is the probability that a card
drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards is red
and an 8?
A 0.25 C 0.08
B 0.16 D 0.04
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