Chapter 4 Practice Test A

Name: __________________________ Date: _____________

1. If a menu has a choice of 5 appetizers, 4 main courses, and 5 desserts, then the sample
space for all possible dinners has how many outcomes?

A) 45 B) 100 C) 3 D) 25

2. A store manager wants to display 5 different brands of toothpaste in a row. How many
ways can this be done?

A) 24 B) 5 C) 120 D) 20

3. How many different ways can four people: Andy, Betty, Cindy, and Doug, sit in a row
at the opera if Andy and Betty must sit together?

A) 12 B) 18 C) 24 D) 6

4. If a sportscaster makes an educated guess as to how well a team will do this season, he
is using what type of probability?

A) empirical probability C) subjective probability

B) classical probability D) conditional probability

5. A group of 4 children are choosing colors of pencils to use to draw a picture. The
available colors are black, red, and blue. If the second child refuses to use red pencils
and the third child refuses to use blue pencils, then how many ways are there for the
children to choose pencils? Assume that there are 8 pencils available of each color and
different children are allowed to choose the same color of pencils. and 4 squared is 16, 3
to the 4 is 81.

A) 81 B) 27 C) 24 D) 36

6. If the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F are to be used in a five-letter code, how many different
codes are possible if repetitions are not permitted?

A) 720 B) 1,296 C) 625 D) 7,776

Page 1
 Chapter 4 Practice Test A

7. Box A contains the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. Box B contains the numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8. A
number is first drawn from Box A and then another number from Box B. Using Figure
4–2, how many outcomes are possible if both numbers are even?

A) 4 B) 8 C) 16 D) 6

8. If a red suit is drawn from an ordinary deck of cards, what is the probability that the
card is a diamond?

1 1 1 1
A) 5 B) 4 C) 2 D) 3

9. A certain system has two components. There are 10 different models of the first
component and 11 different of the second. Any first component can be paired with any
second component. A salesman must select 2 of the first component and 3 of the second
to take on a sales call. How many different sets of components can the salesman take?

A) 10P5 × 11P5 B) 10C2 × 11C3 C) 10C5 × 11C5 D) 10P2 × 11P3

10. A student and a professor each choose a number between 1 and 4 (1 and 4 are both
possible choices). What is the probability that the two choose the same number?

A) 8/16 B) 1/16 C) 2/16 D) 4/16

11. In the Happy Hilltop Health Home, 20% of the residents play shuffleboard, 30% of the
residents play poker, and 50% of the residents garden. If 35% of the residents play
poker and garden and 70% of the residents play both shuffleboard and poker, then find
the probability that a resident plays poker, given that they garden.

A) 90% B) 70% C) 80% D) 60%

Page 2
 Chapter 4 Practice Test A

12. There are 3 different mathematics courses, 4 different science courses, and 2 different
history courses. If a student must take one of each, how many different ways can this be
done?

A) 48 B) 24 C) 9 D) 11

13. A coin is tossed 3 times. Find the probability that all 3 tosses are tails.

A) 1/9 B) 1/6 C) 1/3 D) none of the above

14. Evaluate the following: 7C3.

A) 35 B) 6 C) 5,040 D) 210

15. In a second grade class containing 13 girls and 9 boys, 2 students are selected at random
to give out the math papers. What is the probability that the second student chosen is a
boy, given that the first one was a girl?

A) 9/22 B) 9/21 C) (13 × 13)/(22× 21) D) (13 × 9)/(22× 21)

16. In a recent study, the following data was obtained in response to the question, “Do you
favor recycling in your neighborhood?”
Yes No No Opinion
Males 25 15 10
Females 30 10 10
If a person is picked at random, what is the probability that the person is either male or
has no opinion regarding recycling?

4 7 3 3
A) 5 B) 10 C) 10 D) 5

17. How many possible outcomes would there be if three coins were tossed once?

A) 4 B) 6 C) 8 D) 2

Page 3
 Chapter 4 Practice Test A

18. The statement "The probability that a certain sports team will win it's next game is about
60%" is an example of

A) empirical probability C) a sample space

B) subjective probability D) classical probability

19. If the probability that it will rain tomorrow is 0.25, then the probability that it will not
rain tomorrow is:

A) 0.75 B) 0.25 C) 1.25 D) -0.25

20. 3 statistics professors and 7 chemistry professors are available to be advisors to a

student organization. The student organization needs two of the professors to be
advisors. If each professor has an equal chance of being selected, what is the
probability that both professors are chemistry professors?

A) 0.100 B) 0.467 C) 0.233 D) 0.111

Page 4
 Chapter 4 Practice Test A

Answer Key
1. B
2. C
3. A
4. C
5. D
6. A
7. A
8. C
9. B
10. D
11. B
12. B
13. D
14. A
15. B
16. D
17. C
18. B
19. A
20. B

Page 5