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If the coin is to be tossed three times, what is the probability that on at least one of the tosses will turn up tails?
2. After the Lucky Air flight arrived in Las Vegas, John went to the strip to gamble. At the craps table, John bet
$20 on boxcars (two sixes). If John rolls two fair, six-sided dice, what is the probability that he will roll two sixes?
3. A group of friends have decided to take a road trip. Whenever they come to a fork in the road, they will flip a
fair coin to decide whether to head right or left. If the friends have made four decisions, what is the probability that
they took all four lefts or all four rights?
4. If two fair, six-sided dice are tossed, what is probability that sum of the numbers is 7?
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5. John purchased a lottery ticket and is watching the lottery result on television. For his ticket, John selected 7
numbers from 1 to 12 without replacement. In this lottery, 7 numbers from 1 to 12 are selected randomly without
replacement. The first 5 numbers selected match John’s lottery ticket. If John’s ticket matches the next two
numbers, he will win $500. What is the probability that John will win $500?
6. A flower shop has been asked to make bouquets for a fundraising event. The flower shop currently has 5
different types of flowers in stock: roses, tulips, carnations, sunflower and daisies. If each bouquet has 3 different
types of flowers, how many different bouquets of three flowers are possible?
7. A famous artist has donated 7 pieces of artwork to a certain gallery. The gallery has raised enough money for 5
different in size and color display cases to display the art throughout the gallery. How many different ways can the
gallery display the 7 pieces of artwork, 5 pieces at a time, throughout the gallery?
8. A bar is creating a new signature drink. There are five alcoholic ingredients for the drink: rum, vodka, gin,
peach schnapps, or whiskey. There are five non-alcoholic ingredients: cranberries juice, orange juice, pineapple
juice, lime juice, or lemon juice. If the bar uses two alcoholic ingredients and two non-alcoholic ingredients, how
many different drinks are possible.
9. A bar is creating a new signature drink. There are using two alcoholic ingredients in the drink: vodka and gin.
There are using two non-alcoholic ingredients in the drink : cranberry juice and orange juice. The Alcoholic
ingredients contain 40% alcohol. The non-alcoholic ingredients contain no alcohol. How many liters of non-
alcoholic ingredients must be added to 6 liters of alcoholic ingredients to product a mixture that is 15% alcohol?
10. The buyer of a certain mechanical toy must choose 2 of 3 optional motions and 3 of 5 optional accessories.
How many different combinations of motions and accessories are available to the buyer?
11. There are 20 members on a football squad. In electing a captain and a cocaptain, how many different outcomes
of the election are possible?
12. The probability of Sam passing the exam is 1/4. The probability of Sam passing the exam and Michael passing
the driving test is 1/6. What is the probability of Michael passing his driving test?
13. In a stack of six cards, each card is labeled with a different integer 0 through 5. If two cards are selected
random without replacement, what is the probability that their sum will be 3?
14. The number of distinct 3-player teams that can be drawn from a pool of 5 players?
15. The Tyler Jackson Dance Company plans to perform a piece that requires two dancers. If there are 7 dancers in
the company, how many possible combinations of dancers could perform the piece?
16. From 7 men-dancers and 5 girl-dancers how many different mixed pairs can be formed?
17. How many four-digit numbers begins with an odd digit and end an even digit?
18. How many four-digit numbers begins with an even digit and end an odd digit?
19. Find probability point selected random will lie in on the shaded big circle in stead unshaded small circle, if
radius of big circle is two times more than small circle and they have common center?
20. If the coin is to be tossed three times, what is the probability that all of three results are the same?
21. Tickets numbered consecutive from 200 through 350 are placed in a box. What is the probability that a ticket
selected at random will have a number with a digit of 2?
22. The probability that even M will not occur is 0.7 and the probability that event N will not occur is 0.5. If the
events M and N cannot both occur, which of the following is probability that event M or N will occur?
23. In how many arrangements can a teacher seat 3 girls and 3 boys in a row of 6 seats, if the boys are to have
first, third and fifth seats?
24. If x is to be chosen at random from the set {1, 2, 3, 4} and y is to be chosen random from the set {5, 6, 7},
what is probability that xy will be even?
25. One integer will be randomly selected from the set A = {2, 3, 4, 5} and one integer will be randomly selected
from the set B = {4, 5, 6, 7, 8}. What is probability that the sum of two integers will equal 9 ?
26. A six sided die, with sides numbered 1 through 6, is rolled three times. What is the probability that the sum of
three rolls is at least 4 ?
27. Frank has a box containing 6 doughnuts : 3 jellies and 3 cinnamon twists. If Frank eats three doughnuts,
chosen randomly from the box, what is the probability that he eats three jelly doughnuts ?
28. A certain junior class has 1,000 students and a certain senior class has 800 students. Among these students,
there are 60 sibling pairs, each consisting of 1 junior and 1 senior. If 1 student is to be selected at random from
each class, what is probability that 2 students selected will be a sibling pair?
29. Alex, Bob and Charlie each try independently to solve a problem. If their individual probabilities for success
3 1 3
are , and , respectively, what is the probability that Alex and Bob, but not Charlie will solve the problem?
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30. Mike needs to choose a computer password. The password will consist of two letters followed by three
numerical digits. The letters may be the same, but no digit may match another digit. How many different
passwords could Mike create?
31. Joe is choosing books at the bookstore. He has a list of seven books that he would like to buy, but he can only
afford to buy three books. How many different groups of books could Joe buy?
32. Carol is having friends over to watch home movie. She has 6 reels of home movies, but she and her friends
have time to watch only 3 of them. Carol must decide which reels to watch and in what order. How many different
orderings does Carol have from which choose?
33. From a bag containing 12 identical blue balls, y identical yellow balls, and no other balls, one ball will be
removed at random. If the probability is less than 3/5 that the removed ball will be blue, what is the least number of
yellow balls that must in the bag?
34. A three-digit code for certain locks uses digits according to the following constraints. The first digit cannot be
5 or 6, the second digit must be 5 or 6, and the second and third digit cannot both be 5 in the same code. How many
different codes are possible?
35. Four professors and six students are being considered for membership on a supervisory committee which must
consist of 3 people. If the committee has to include at least 1 professor, how many ways can this committee be
formed?
36. If you test 2 different lightbulbs from a box of 100 bulbs that contains 1 defective bulb what is the probability
that both lightbulbs that you test are defective?
37. A jar contains 5 marbles: 3 red and 2 blue. If two marbles are drown randomly from the jar, what Is probability
that they will be different colors?
38. If S = {0, 4, 5, 2, 11, 8}, how much greater than the median of the numbers in S is the mean?
39. If the median of the numbers in list I = {3, 6, 8, 19} is equal to the median of the numbers in the list II = {x, 3,
6, 8, 19}, what is the value of x?
40. If a certain sample of data has a mean of 20.0 and a standard deviation of 3.0, which of the following values is
more than 2.5 standard deviations from mean.
A) 12.0 B) 13.5 C) 17.0 D) 23.5 E) 26.5
41. The data sets M {72, 73, 74, 75, 76}, N {74, 74, 74, 74, 74} and P {62, 74, 74, 74, 89} are ordered from
greatest standard deviation to least standard deviation in which of the following?
42. For a certain examination, a score of 48 is 3 standard deviations below the mean, and a score of 93 is 2
standard deviations above the mean. What is the mean score for the examination?
43. Which of the following pairs of numbers, when added to the set {9, 12, 15, 18, 21}, will increase the standard
deviation of the set? I. 14 and 16 II. 9 and 21 III. 15 and 100

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44. The graph above shows the distribution of test scores for a
15 certain class. What was the average (arithmetic mean) score?
10 45. What was the mode of score?
5 46. What was the median of score?
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47. In Motor City 90 percent of the population own a car, 15 percent own a motorcycle, and everybody owns one
or the other or both. What is the percentage of motorcycle owners who own cars?
48. On a certain road, 10 percent of the motorists exceed the posted speed limit and receive speeding tickets, but
20 percent of the motorists who exceed the posted speed limit do not receive speeding tickets. What percent of the
motorists on that road exceed the posted speed limit?
49. Jerome wrote each of the integers 1 through 20, inclusive, on a separate index card. He placed the cards in a
box, then drew cards one at a time randomly from the box, without returning the cards he had already drawn to the
box. In order to ensure that the sum of all the cards he drew was even, how many cards did Jerome have to draw?
50. In an increasing sequence of 10 consecutive integers, the sum of the first 5 integers is 560. What is the sum of
the last 5 integers in the sequence?
51. What is the least positive integer that is divisible by all integers from 1 to 9 inclusive?
52. If (t-8) is a factor of t2 – kt – 48. Then what is a value of k?
53. What is the units digit of (13)4 (17)2 (29)2 ?
54. If the operation ☺ is defined for all a and b by the equation a☺b = (a2b) ‫׃‬3, then 2☺(3 ☺ -1) is equal to:
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55. For all numbers S and T, the operation ☼ is defined by S☼T = (S- 1)(T+1). If (-2)☼X = -12, then X= ?
56. If “the area of a number” is defined as the difference between that number’s greatest and least prime factors,
what is the area of 300?
57. For any positive integer n, n>1, the “length” of n is the number of positive primes(not necessary distinct)
whose product is n. For example the length of 50 is 3 since 50=(2)(5)(5). What is the greatest possible length of a
positive integer less than 1000?