Session Questions
Q.1 Clarissa will create her summer reading list by randomly choosing 4 books from the 10 books approved for summer reading. She will list the books in the order in which they are chosen. How many different lists are possible?
A. 6
B. 40
C. 210
D. 5,040
E. 151,200
Q.2 If a code word is defined to be a sequence of different letters chosen from the 10 letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J, what is the ratio of the number of 5-letter code words to the number of 4-letter code words?
A. 5 to 4
B. 3 to 2
C. 2 to 1
D. 5 to 1
E. 6 to 1
Q.3 If a committee of 3 people is to be selected from among 5 married couples so that the committee does not include two people who are married to each other, how many such committees are possible?
A. 40
B. 50
C. 80
D.120
E. 480
Q.4 A certain office supply store stocks 2 sizes of self-stick notepads, each in 4 colors: Blue, Green, Yellow Or Pink. The store packs the notepads in pacakages that contain either 3 notepads of the same size and the same color or 3 notepads of the same size and of 3 different colors. If the order in which the colors are packed is not considered, how many different packages of the types described above are possible?
A. 6
B. 8
C. 16
D. 24
E. 64
Q.5
1, 234
1, 243
1, 324
…..
….
+4, 321
The addition problem above shows four of the 24 different integers that can be formed by using each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 exactly once in each integer. What is the sum of these 24 integers?
(A) 24, 000
(B) 26, 664
(C) 40, 440
(D) 60, 000
(E) 66, 660
Q.6 Each of the integers from 0 to 9, inclusive, is written on a separate slip of blank paper and the ten slips are dropped into a hat. If the slips are then drawn one at a time without replacement, how many must be drawn to ensure that the numbers on two of the slips drawn will have a sum of 10 ?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Five
D) Six
E) Seven
Q.7 Five integers between 10 and 99, inclusive, are to be formed by using each of the ten digits exactly once in such a way that the sum of the five integers is as small as possible. What is the greatest possible integer that could be among these five numbers?
A. 98
B. 91
C. 59
D. 50
E. 37