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In a class of 78 students 41 are taking French, 22 are taking German. Of the students taking French or German, 9 are taking both courses. How many students are not enrolled in either course?\

2. Amy has to visit towns B and C in any order. The roads connecting these towns with her home are shown on the diagram. How many different routes can she take starting from A and returning to A, going through both B and C (but not more than once through each) and not travelling any road twice on the same trip? 3. Helpers are needed to prepare for the fete. Each helper can make either 2 large cakes per hour, or 35 small cakes per hour. The kitchen is available for 3 hours and 20 large cakes and 700 small cakes are needed. How many helpers are required?

4. Jo's collection contains US, Indian and British stamps. If the ratio of US to Indian stamps is 5 to 2 and the ratio of Indian to British stamps is 5 to 1, what is the ratio of US to British stamps? 5. After being dropped a certain ball always bounces back to 2/5 of the height of its previous bounce. After the first bounce it reaches a height of 125 inches. How high (in inches) will it reach after its fourth bounce?

6. In the above correctly worked addition sum, A,B,C and D represent different digits, and all the digits in the sum are different. What is the sum of A,B,C and D? 7. There are 200 marbles in a box. All the marbles are either red or blue. If there are 40 more red marbles than blue, how many red marbles are there in the box? 8. Event E is defined to be rolling an even number on a 6-sided die and Event F is defined to be rolling a 1, 2 or 3. Calculate the probability of rolling a die such that events E and F occur simultaneously on a single roll of the die. 9. If E is defined to be drawing a black card out of a normal 52 card deck and F is defined to be drawing a heart, what is the probability of either E or F coming true? 10. A box contains either blue or red flags. The total number of flags in the box is an even number. A group of children are asked to pick up two flags each. If all the flags are used up in the process such that 60% of the children have blue flags, and 55% have red flags, what percentage of children have flags of both the colors? 11. What fraction of seven lettered words formed using the letters of the words CLASSIC will have the two C's always together? 12. Walking across campus, a student interviewed a group of students. 25% of the students took a finance class last semester, 50% took a marketing class last semester, and 40% took neither a finance nor a marketing class last semester. What percent of the students in the group took both a finance and a marketing class?

13. . A circle with a radius of 6 has a square inscribed inside of it. What is the area of the black region?

14. . In a large forest, 300 deer were caught, tagged, and returned during 2001. During 2002, 500 deer were caught at random, of which only 20 had tags from the previous year. If the percent of deer in the forest that had tags during the second year and were caught in the 500 deer sample is representative of the percent of the total deer population in the forest with tags, what is the total deer population in the forest (assuming no change in population between 2001 and 2002)? 15. Event E is defined to be rolling an even number on a 6-sided die and Event F is defined to be rolling a 1, 2 or 3. Calculate the probability of rolling a die such that events E and F occur simultaneously on a single roll of the die. 16. There are six different models that are to appear in a fashion show. Two are from Europe, two are from South America, and two are from North America. If all the models from the same continent are to stand next to each other, how many ways can the fashion show organizer arrange the models? 17. Computer Games Plus needs to get rid of its copies of an old computer game. If it lowers the cost of the old computer game by $5 dollars, it can increase sales of the old computer game by 10 units and still generate exactly $100 of revenue from the old game. How many units of the old computer game did Computer Games Plus sell after implementing the new selling strategy? 18. A coin has two sides. One side has the number 1 on it and the other side has the number 2 on it. If the coin is flipped three times what is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the landing side of the coin will be greater than 4? 19. The ratio of a compound, by weight, consisting only of substances x, y, and z is 4:6:10, respectively. Due to a dramatic increase in the surrounding temperature, the composition of the compound is changed such that the ratio of x to y is halved and the ratio of x to z is tripled. In the changed compound, if the total weight is 58 lbs, how much does substance x weigh? 20. If a class of 10 students has five men, how many ways can the men and women be arranged in a circle so that no two men sit next to each other?

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