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1. A bag contains 5 red, 6 green, 7 yellow, and 8 blue jelly beans. A jelly bean is

selected at random. What is the probability that it is blue?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

2. After a fair die with faces numbered 1 to 6 is rolled, the number on the top face is

. Which of the following is most likely?

(A) is greater than 2 (B) equals 4 or 5 (C) is even (D) is less than 3

(E) equals 3

3. The bar graph shows the number of provinces and territories that joined Canadian

Confederation during each of four 40 year time periods.

If one of the 13 provinces or territories is chosen at random, what is the probability

that it joined Canadian Confederation between 1890 and 1969?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

4. Two different numbers are randomly selected from the set and then

multiplied together. What is the probability that the product of the two numbers

chosen is 0?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

5. On each spin of the spinner shown, the arrow is equally likely

to stop on any one of the four numbers. Deanna spins the

arrow on the spinner twice. She multiplies together the two

numbers on which the arrow stops. Which product is most

likely to occur?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

6. An integer is chosen at random from the list . The

probability that is

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

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7. Harry the Hamster is put in a maze, and he starts at

point . The paths are such that Harry can move

forward only in the direction of the arrows. At any

junction, he is equally likely to choose any of the

forward paths. What is the probability that Harry

ends up at ?

(A) (B) (C)

(D)

(E)

8. A gumball machine that randomly dispenses one gumball at a time contains 13

red, 5 blue, 1 white, and 9 green gumballs. What is the least number of gumballs

that Wally must buy to guarantee that he receives 3 gumballs of the same colour?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

9. Alejandro has a box that contains 30 balls, numbered from 1 to 30. He randomly

selects a ball from the box where each ball is equally likely to be chosen. Which of

the following is most likely?

(A) He selects a ball whose number is a multiple of 10.

(B) He selects a ball whose number is odd.

(C) He selects a ball whose number includes the digit 3.

(D) He selects a ball whose number is a multiple of 5.

(E) He selects a ball whose number includes the digit 2.

10. A cube has six faces. Each face has some dots on it. The numbers of dots on the six

faces are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Harry removes one of the dots at random, with each

dot equally likely to be removed. When the cube is rolled, each face is equally

likely to be the top face. What is the probability that the top face has an odd

number of dots on it?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

11. Amina and Bert alternate turns tossing a fair coin. Amina goes first and each

player takes three turns. The first player to toss a tail wins. If neither Amina nor

Bert tosses a tail, then neither wins. What is the probability that Amina wins?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

12. Three friends are in the park. Bob and Clarise are standing at the same spot and

Abe is standing 10 m away. Bob chooses a random direction and walks in this

direction until he is 10 m from Clarise. What is the probability that Bob is closer

to Abe than Clarise is to Abe?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

13. One bag contains 2 red marbles and 2 blue marbles. A second bag contains 2 red

marbles, 2 blue marbles, and green marbles, with . For each bag, Maria

calculates the probability of randomly drawing two marbles of the same colour in

two draws from that bag, without replacement. (Drawing two marbles without

replacement means drawing two marbles, one after the other, without putting the

first marble back into the bag.) If these two probabilities are equal, then the value

of is

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

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14. A coin that is 8 cm in diameter is tossed onto a 5 by 5

grid of squares each having side length 10 cm. A coin is

in a winning position if no part of it touches or crosses a

grid line, otherwise it is in a losing position. Given that

the coin lands in a random position so that no part of it

is off the grid, what is the probability that it is in a

winning position?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

15. Eight teams compete in a tournament. Each pair of teams plays exactly one game

against each other. There are no ties. If the two possible outcomes of each game

are equally likely, what is the probability that every team loses at least one game

and wins at least one game?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

16. How many ordered pairs of positive integers with are there

such that when black balls and gold balls are randomly arranged in a row, the

probability that the balls on each end have the same colour is ?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

17. Five monkeys are seated around a table. Their seats are

labelled , , , , and , in clockwise order, as shown. The

five monkeys are randomly numbered Monkey 1, Monkey 2,

Monkey 3, Monkey 4, and Monkey 5. Monkey 1 remains in its

seat. The remaining four monkeys then sit themselves in the

remaining seats so that they are seated in clockwise order as

Monkey 1, Monkey 2, Monkey 3, Monkey 4, and Monkey 5.

What is the probability that the Monkey originally in seat

moves to seat ?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

18. Two numbers and with and are chosen at random. The

number is defined by . The numbers and are each rounded to the

nearest integer to give and , respectively. (For example, if and

, then , and so , , and .) What is the probability

that ?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

19. One bag contains 2 red marbles and 2 blue marbles. A second bag contains 2 red

marbles, 2 blue marbles, and green marbles, with . For each bag, Maria

calculates the probability of randomly drawing two marbles of the same colour in

two draws from that bag, without replacement. (Drawing two marbles without

replacement means drawing two marbles, one after the other, without putting the

first marble back into the bag.) If these two probabilities are equal, then the value

of is

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

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20. Wayne has 3 green buckets, 3 red buckets, 3 blue buckets, and 3 yellow buckets.

He randomly distributes 4 hockey pucks among the green buckets, with each puck

equally likely to be put in each bucket. Similarly, he distributes 3 pucks among the

red buckets, 2 pucks among the blue buckets, and 1 puck among the yellow

buckets. Once he is finished, what is the probability that a green bucket contains

more pucks than each of the other 11 buckets?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

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