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48+ GMAT MATH QUIZ #2

Ever wondered what it feels like to take the GMAT and score in the top 10% on the quantitative section? Below is a 37-
question math workout to give you the experience of the kinds of questions you are likely to see if you ace the math portion
of the test. If you are aiming for a perfect score, this is a great opportunity to practice your pacing and accuracy, as well as to
work out on the kind of questions ETS is throwing at its top scorers these days. If you haven’t reached the top level yet, this
is a great way to stretch yourself and to practice teasing your brain on the very hardest questions out there.

2 4. What does (1 + m)(1 – m + m2 – m3 ) = ?

1. A fruit salad contains blueberries and the rest
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raspberries. Chen loves raspberries, so she added (1) m6 = 64
12 quarts of raspberries to the salad. If the 1
5 (2) m -3 = −
mixture is now raspberries, how many quarts 8
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of fruit salad were there to begin with?
(A) 9 5. If P = (n)(n – 1)(n – 2) . . . (1) and n > 2, what
(B) 12 is the largest value of integer n where P has zero
(C) 15 as its last 6 digits and a non-zero digit for its
(D) 21 millions place?
(E) 25 (A) 29
(B) 30
2x (C) 34
2. What is the value of ? (D) 35
8y (E) 39
(1) x = 3 y + 8
(2) y = 4
6. John is choosing a number n randomly from all
integers from 56 to 150 inclusive. What is the
3. Susan is looking at her cell phone bill from probability that the number he chooses will be
the last 6 months. April’s bill was four times that one where n(n + 1) is divisible by 5?
of all the other bills. If the median amount due 1
for a month was $32, what was the average (A)
5
amount due in a month during those six months?
19
(A) $32 (B)
(B) $48 95
(C) $53 2
(C)
(D) $80 5
(E) $128 19
(D)
94
3
(E)
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7. Is x 3 > y ? 12. If k = 20 x + 50 y and x + y = 1 , is k < 35 ?
(1) 3
x>y (1) y >
1
2
(2) x 2 > y
(2) y > x

8. What is the remainder when 332 is divided by 13. If m < 0 , is n < 0 ?

4?
(A) 0
(B) 1 (1) m = n − 3
(C) 2 (2) m n = k , where k > 0
(D) 3
(E) 4
14. There are 7 types of pizza toppings that Al
can order put on his pizza: anchovies, broccoli,
9. If m = 2 x 5 y 7 z and both 350 and 280 are
extra cheese, pepperoni, eggplant, peppers, and
factors of m , what is the minimum value of xyz ?
pineapple. Al hates the combination of anchovies
(A) 700 and pineapple, but loves any other combination of
(B) 70 toppings. How many different combinations of 3
(C) 24 toppings could Al order that he likes (assuming
(D) 6 that he orders any topping no more than once in
(E) 5 any given combination)?
(A) 70
(B) 60
10. Let M be the maximum value and N be the (C) 50
x2 + y (D) 35
minimum value of the expression . If
y (E) 30
a ≤ x ≤ b and c ≤ y ≤ d , then what is the value of
M – N?
15. Which of the following fractions has a
decimal equivalent that terminates?
(1) c = 3 43
I.
(2) a = -2, b = 5 and d = 7 256
35
II.
11. Olivier is an abstract painter who is working 150
on a series of paintings. If each of these paintings 20
III.
has three identical blue vertical stripes, two 99
identical red vertical stripes and two identical (A) I only
black vertical stripes spaced evenly across a (B) II only
square canvass, how many distinct paintings (C) I and II
could Olivier’s series include? (D) II and III
(A) 5040 (E) I, II, and III
(B) 720
(C) 210
(D) 96
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16. If p is the sum of the integers from 75 to 20. John, Aditi, and Karim are all stamp
150 inclusive and q is the sum of integers from collectors. What is the ratio of the number of
75 to 151 inclusive, which of the following stamps Aditi has to the number of stamps John
has.
1 1
expresses + in terms of q ? (1) Aditi has half as many stamps as John has,
p q and Karim has three times as many stamps
2q − 151 as John has.
(A) 2
q − 151q 1
2q + 151 (2) Aditi has
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the size collection of what
(B) 2
q + 151q Karim has.
1
(C)
2q + 151
1 21. Chef Gundy is creating a new dessert that
(D) will be made from 3 ingredients. If he has 8
2q − 151
cookies and one flavor of sorbet to choose from,
q − 151
(E) 2 what fraction of the possible arrangements will
q − 151q contain the sorbet?
1
(A)
84
17. If a = 2048 and b = 432 then what is the value 1
1 (B)
of (ab) 3 ? 56
1
(A) 48 (C)
9
(B) 96 1
(C) 216 (D)
(D) 256 3
2
(E) 432 (E)
3
x
18. If x , y , and z are integers, is an integer?
yz 22. If the grocery store is 10 miles west of the
(1) y is a factor of x more than once. mall and 8 miles south of the office park, what is
the approximate distance between the mall and
(2) All of the prime factors of z are also
the office park.
factors of y .
(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 9
19. Bob, Hans, and Ming are running a race what (D) 11
is the probability that Bob will win the race? (E) 13
(1) The chance of Hans winning is .3.
(2) Seven tenths of the time either Bob or
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23. Is the distance between exits 4 and 5 longer 26. What is the value of x ?
than 12 miles?
(1) 13x > 12 x
(1) One car drives the distance between the (2) x 2 = 9
two exits in 12 minutes at a rate of 55
miles per hour.
1
(2) Another car takes less than 13 minutes to 27. If 0 < x < , which of the following
2
trave l the distance going 60 miles per expresses the third smallest value?
hour.
(A) x
(B) x 2
24. In a particular college dormitory with 130
people, 57 students watch E. R. and 48 watch (C) x −1
Law & Order. If there are twice as many students 3
(D) x
who watch neither show as who watch both, how 4
many students watch both? 1
(E) x −
(A) 25 2
(B) 35
(C) 45
(D) 50
(E) 70 28.

25.

Which of the following equations best expresses

the line (drawn to scale) above?
The circles above share the same center. If the (A) x = 3 + 3 y
radius of the smaller circle is r and the radius of 1
4 (B) x = 1 − y
the larger circle is that of the smaller one, what 3
3 (C) x = 3 y − 3
is the area of the shaded region, in terms of r ?
1
16 2 (D) x = y + 1
(A) πr 3
3
(E) x = 3 − 3 y
(B) πr 2
7
(C) πr 2
9 29. If rectangle A has width w and length l , and
1 2 w > l , what is the value of w ?
(D) πr
9
1
(E) πr 2 (1) The area of rectangle A = 24
3
(2) The perimeter of rectangle A = 20

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30. Set B has three positive integers with a 35. How many even, three digit integers greater
median of 9. If the largest possible range of the than 700 with distinct, non- zero digits are there?
three numbers is 19, given a certain mean, what is (A) 729
that mean? (B) 243
(A) 22 (C) 108
(B) 10 (D) 88
(C) 9.6 (E) 77
(D) 9
(E) It cannot be determined from the information
given 36. What is the value of x 2 ?

(1) y (2 x + y ) = 32
31. What is the product of positive integers P
and Q? (2) ( x + y ) 2 = 36

(1) 18P + Q = 367

(2) Q < 18 37. The probability that a certain coin will fall
heads up is 50%. What is the probability that it
falls heads up on three of six tosses?
32. If xy ≠ 0 , is x < y ? 41
(A) 6
2
35
(B) 6
(1) x 4 < y 4 2
1
(2) x −3 < y −3 (C) 6
2
21
(D) 5
2
5
33. In sequence P, P4 and P5 are 11 and 9 (E) 4
respectively. Each term after the first two terms 2
in sequence P is either the sum of the previous
two terms if that sum is odd, or half the sum of
the previous two terms if the sum is even. What
is the largest possible product of P1 and P2 ?
(A) 40
(B) 14
(C) 12
(D) 10
(E) 7

34. Is x > y ?

(1) x 2 > y 2
(2) xy < 0

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1. This question is a good candidate for a
ratio box (convert the fractions talked
about in the question to ratios). There will
actually be two boxes--the first for the
initial amounts of berries and the second
for the final amounts. The boxes look as
follows:
Initial Ratio Multiplier Actual
Blueberries 2
Raspberries 1
Total 3 (D).
Final Ratio Multiplier Actual
Blueberries 2 is the same as the factorial function.
Raspberries 5 Factorials add a factor of ten, in other
Total 7 words, a zero, every fifth integer. You get
Then to fill in the actual columns, plug in your
answer choices. If you are paying attention, there
is an easy way to ballpark the answer choice—the
answers are the initial total amount, so the final
total is the answer choice + 12. That amount
must be divisible by 7. The only answer choice
for which that is true is (A), the correct one. You
can test that by plugging it into the boxes.
2. Before you look at the statements, get
2x 2x
your base numbers to match: y = 3 y .
8 2
To evaluate statement 1, plug in the right
half of the equation from the statement
into the expression in the question:
2x 2 3 y +8
3y
= 3 y = 2 3 y +8 − 3 y = 2 8 . Therefore,
2 2
statement 1 is sufficient to solve.
Statement 2 gives you no information
about x.
3. The median is the middle number, and
since all but one bill are the same amount,
the median is the same as the bill amount
of the majority bills. So there are 5
months of bills at $32 and one month at 4
x $32. The average can be found this
way:
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32 + 32 + 32 + 32 + 32 + 4(32) 9(32 )
= = 48
6 6
. The correct answer is (B).
4. The issue with statement 1 is that you
don't know whether m = 2 or -2. But don't
stop here. If you plug both values into the
expression in the question, you will see
that both result in the same value.
Statement 2 tells you that m = -2 and is
therefore sufficient. The correct answer is
5. This one requires some canny thinking. P
6 zeroes beginning with 30! and a seventh
zero with 35!, so the largest integer that
has only 6 zeros is 34!, so the correct
answer is (C).
6. When n equals a multiple of 5 or one less
than a multiple of 5, n (n + 1) is divisible
by 5. Two- fifths of all numbers fit that
description. Since our range is a round set
of 95 consecutive numbers, the
probability that a number chosen at
random from that set will fit the criteria
required by the question is 2/5.
7. Try plugging in numbers to this yes/no
data sufficiency. For statement 1, if x = 8
and y = 1, you will get a "yes". On the
other hand, if you plug in x = 1/8 and y =
1/3, you will get a "no", so statement 1 is
not sufficient. For statement 2, the same
first pair of numbers will work, giving a
"yes", and x = -8 and y = 1 give you a
"no". Therefore, statement 2 is
insufficient. Even together the statements
are not sufficient, although the range of
numbers that will give you a "no" have
been significantly decreased. But if you
plug in x = 1/2 and y = 1/6, for example,
you do get a "no". Therefore, the correct
answer is (E). In general, for yes/no
questions that have inequalities with
 exponents such as this one, exceptions can
almost always be found between 0 and 1.
8. Don't panic when you see a question like
this that looks like it involves ridiculous
amounts of calculating! There is always a
pattern--all you have to do is find it. First
of all, you can cross off answers (A), (C),
and (E). For (A) or (E) to be correct, 332
would have to be divisible by 4, but it
can't be (do you see why?). And for (C)
to be correct, 332 would have to be even,
but it won't be (again, can you explain
why?). Now cycle through the first few
exponents of 3 to find the pattern: 30 has a
remainder of 1, 31 has a remainder of 3, 32
has a remainder of 1, and 33 has a
remainder of 3. So the pattern that
emerges is that all even exponents of 3
have a remainder of 1 when divided by 4,
and all odd exponents have a remainder of
3. Since 32 is even, the correct answer is
(B).
9. One way of interpreting the question is to
realize that they are asking you to find the
least common multiple of 350 and 280.
To do that, first find the prime
factorization of both numbers:
350 = 2 × 5 2 × 7 and 280 = 2 3 × 5 × 7 . To
then find the least common multiple, just
take the largest exponent of each of the
factors of the two numbers and multiply
the result: 2 3 × 5 2 × 7 = 1400 . So the
correct answer is (B).
10. In order to find both the maximum values
of the expression, we need to know the
maximum of both x and y, found in
statement 2. In order to find the
minimum, if x could equal 0 (implied by
its range covering both negative and
positive number), then we know the
minimum of the expression too: no matter
what y equals, the result will be 1. We
know all of this from statement 2, so the
correct answer is (B).
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11. Here we have a permutations question
with some interchangeable elements. You
should start out by finding the number of
ways to arrange 7 items: 7!. Then to
account for the interchangeable items, you
divide by the number of interchangeable
items factorial, so the result looks as
7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 ×1
follows: . After you
3 × 2 × 1× 2 × 1× 2 × 1
reduce the fraction, you should get
7 × 6 × 5 = 210 or (C).
12. As usual with yes/no questions, you want
to plug in to see what is going on. Here,
however, the easiest way to see what is
going on in the question is to start with
statement 1, and rather than plug in a legal
value for y, find out what happens at the
boundary of the inequality. In other
words, plug in y = 1/2, even though that is
not allowed by the statement. If you do,
you will find that x also equals 1/2 and
1
that k = 35. Therefore, if y > , k > 35 .
2
Even if you don't see that k has to be
greater than 35, you know that is either
going to be greater or less than 35--either
way, statement 1 is sufficient. Statement
2 follows a similar logic: pretend for a
moment that x = y . If the two variables
are equal, then they both equal 1/2. This
brings us back to the findings of statement
1, therefore statement 2 must also be
correct. This means that the correct
answer is (D).
13. This is a straightforward yes/no data
sufficiency question. Pick numbers for
your variables. In statement 1, if m = -1
and therefore n = 2, yo u get a "no". If m
= -5 and n = -2, you get a "yes".
Therefore statement 1 is not sufficient. In
statement 2, to get a negative base number
to result in a positive number, the
exponent must be even, but could be
either positive or negative (try m = -1, k =
1, and n = either 2 or -2). Therefore the
statement is insufficient. The problems
 remain when the two statements are
combined, so the correct answer is (E).
14. First find the total number of three
topping combos that are possible:
7 ×6×5
= 35 . Now find out how many
3 × 2 ×1
of those combine anchovies and
pineapple: A, P, and 5 choices for the
third topping makes a total of 5 illegal
combinations. So how many legal
combinations are there? 35 - 5 = 30 or
(E).
15. The key to this question is to factor the
denominators. (Don't do the long
division!) Statement I's denominator is
just 28 . Any exponent of 2, no matter how
large, can never create a non-terminating
decimal. The other two statements have 3
as one of their factors. Since that 3 does
not cancel into the numerator, the
fractions will never terminate. Therefore
the correct answer is (A).
16. First of all, you need to recognize that
1 1
p = q − 151 . Replace p : + .
q − 151 q
From here, the best way to proceed is to
realize that it no longer matters what q
actually equals. Instead, you can plug in
whatever number you please. If you
glance at your answer choices, it should
become immediately apparent that there
will be a lot of calculation involved if you
do not choose your number well, so this is
an occasion where you could break one of
the rules for choosing your number and
set q = 1 --it is okay to do that once you
have hit an advanced level, see that using
1 will make your life significantly easier,
and check all five answer choices. You
will have to make sure that you don't get
more than one answer choice working out,
but the ease of calculation makes the risk
worth taking. If you do plug in 1, you get
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149
as your target answer. Only answer
150
choice (A) gives you that result.
17. Clearly, you don’t want to try to actually
do the math here instead rewrite the
equation as 3 (2048)(432) . Once you see
that you are actually dealing with a cubed
root you should try to factor out perfect
cubes, this yields
3
(8 • 256)(8 • 54) = 3 (8 • 8 • 32)(8 • 54) .
Keep factoring and you will get
3
(8 • 8 • 8 • 4 )(8 • 2 • 27) then combine
those numbers that are not perfect cubes.
The answer is (B).
x
18. For to be an integer, both y and z
yz
must be proven to be factors of x .
Statement 1 gives you part of that, but is
not on its own sufficient. Statement 2
tells you that z is a factor of y , but not
necessarily of x . Together, however, the
statements are sufficient. To see this,
statement one can be summarized as
x
follows: 2 + = an integer. Statement 2
y
can be rewritten as y = zn where n is an
integer greater than or equal to 1. The
term zn can substitute for one of the y's in
statement 1, and suddenly you have what
the question is asking for. Therefore the
correct answer is (C).
19. Here both statements tell you essentially
the same thing. Neither one can tell you
the probability that Bob will win--only the
probability that Hans will win. Therefore
the correct answer is (E).
20. Only statement 1 relates Aditi to John, so
the correct answer is (A).
21. To answer this question you need to find
out how many combinations of
ingredients contain the sorbet and then
 how many combinations of ingredients
there are total. If the dessert contains the
sorbet, then there are 8 types of cookies to
choose from for the last 2 ingredients, so
8×7
you get or 28 combinations. To
2 ×1
find all possible combinations, you have 9
9×8×7
items to choose for three slots:
3 × 2 ×1
or 84 combinations. The fraction that will
28 1
contain sorbet then is = or (D).
84 3
22. Don't get fooled by the 8 and 10--this is
not a 6:8:10 triangle! The side length 10
is not the hypotenuse. Instead, plug the
two legs of the triangle into the
Pythagorean formula: 64 + 100 = 164.
The square root of 164 is approximately
equal to 13 (132 = 169). The correct
answer is (E).
23. Statement 1 you do not need to calculate.
Since they give you the time and the rate,
we can find the distance. Either that
distance will be longer or shorter than 12
miles, but either way, we will have an
answer to our question. Statement 2, on
inspection, tells us that the distance is less
than 13 miles, but that does not tell us
whether or not the distance is less than 12
miles. Therefore the correct answer to the
question is (A).
24. This question deals with the groups
formula: Total = Group 1 + Group 2 -
Both + Neither. Once you fill in the parts
of the formula you are given, plug in your
answers. Answer choice (A), the correct
answer, gives you 130 = 57 + 48 - 25 +
50, which works out correctly.
25. Plug in. For example, if the radius of the
small circle is 3, the radius of the larger
one would be 4. The area of the shaded
region in that scenario would be
16π − 9π = 7π . When you plug 3 in for
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r in the answer choices, only (C) gives
you your target answer.
26. Statement 1 tells you that x is positive, but
not what it equals. Statement 2 tells you
that x = ±3 . Together you have enough
information to solve. Therefore, the
correct answer is (C).
1
27. Plug in. If you chose x = , then (A) is
4
1 1 3
, (B) is , (C) is 4, (D) is , and (E)
2 8 16
1
is − . Therefore the correct answer is
4
(D).
28. You could figure out what equation
expresses and then translate all of the
answer choices into the slope-intercept
formula, but that would take a long time.
The fastest way to do this question is to do
POE by plugging in the points you do
know. When y = 0, x must be positive, so
that eliminates (C). When x = 0, y must
be positive, so that eliminates (A) and (D).
Now, the y-intercept is less than the x-
intercept. In (B), the y- intercept = 3, the
x- intercept = 1, so that can't be the right
answer either. Therefore (E) is the correct
answer.
29. Statement 1 can be translated into the
equation wl = 24 . Because there are two
variables and only one equation, it is not
sufficient. For the same reason, statement
2 alone is not sufficient: 2 w + 2l = 20 .
Together, however, it is possible to solve.
This is not as obvious as it would be for
two linear equations, because when you
combine the two equations you get a
quadratic (one way of combine the two
equations results in 0 = w 2 − 10 w + 24 ),
so there are two possible values for w --6
and 4. But only one of these, 6, is
allowed, because of the restriction w > l .
Therefore, the correct answer is (C).
30. Plug in your answers here. Don't start
with (C), because 9.6 is an annoying
number to calculate with. Start with (B)
instead. If the mean is 10 and the median
is 9, what would the largest possible range
of the three integers be? To find that, our
three integers must fit into the equation
a+b+c
= 10 . The median, b , equals 9,
3
so a + c = 21 . The range is defined as
c − a , to make c − a as large as possible,
given that a + c = 21 , we can set a = 1
and c = 20 . That does give us a range of
19, so (B) is the correct answer.
31. Statement 1 on its own clearly will not
give us the value of PQ, nor will statement
2 on its own. Together, however, since
we know that both are positive integers,
the statements are sufficient. Since Q <
18, the first expression defines P as the
number of times 18 goes into 367 and Q
as the remainder. The correct answer is
(C).
32. When you are dealing with inequalities
and exponents to two major areas you
need to test for exceptions are negative
numbers and numbers between 0 and 1.
Statement 1 is insufficient, because
negative values for the variables will give
you the opposite result as positive
numbers. In Statement 2, negative
numbers retain their sign, but we need to
look closely at how fractions react. If you
plug in x = 2 and y = 1 , that gives you a
1 1
"no". If you plug in x = , y = , you
2 4
also get a "no". Therefore statement 2 is
sufficient and the correct answer is (B).
33. This question looks really intimidating,
but if you stick with it, it isn't all that hard.
On your scratch paper to begin with, you
should draw the set-up to look something
like this: _ _ _ 11 9. You are told that,
by the rules of the sequence, the fifth
term, 9, is found either by summing 11
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and the third term or by summing the two
terms and cutting them in half. Since it is
impossible to add a positive integer to 11
to get 9, we must be adding an integer to
11 to get 18. Therefore the third term
must equal 7. Your scratch paper should
now look like this: _ _ 7 11 9. Now,
the second term + 7 must equal either 22
or 11. If it equaled 22, the second term
would have to be 15, but then there would
be no legal possible value for the first
term, so the two terms must sum to 11.
Therefore, the second term is 4. Your
scratch paper now looks like _ 4 7 11 9.
Then by the same logic used to this point,
the first term equals either 10 (to sum to
14) or 3 (to sum to 7). The largest
possible product of the first two terms is
therefore 40 or answer choice (A).
34. Statement 1 does not tell us which
variables are positive and which are
negative and is therefore not sufficient.
Statement 2 tells us one of the terms is
positive and the other nega tive, but not
which one is which. Together, the
statements do not resolve the issue, so the
correct answer is (E).
35. This question is a royal pain, no question.
The best way to approach it is to split up
the problem, and treat the 700's, 800's and
900's separately. To find the number of
numbers beginning with a 7 that fit our
criteria, we have 7 choices for our tens
digit (excluding 7, because no repeats are
allowed, 0, and whichever even number is
used as the units digit) and 4 choices (all
non-zero, even digits) for our ones digit,
giving a total of 28 choices. The 900's
work exactly the same way, because its an
odd hundreds digit as well. For the 800's,
we have 7 choices for the tens and only 3
for the ones (8 is no longer a choice for
the ones column). That leaves us with at
total of 21 legal numbers beginning with
an 8. Add 28 + 28 + 21 = 77, so the
correct answer is (E).
36. Neither statements 1 nor 2 are sufficient
on its own because we have no idea how
large y is, so we can eliminate answers
(A), (D) and (B). If you multiply
statement 1 out, you get 2 xy + y 2 = 32 ,
which, if you note, is most of the square
of a sum (i.e. statement 2):
( x + y ) 2 = x 2 + 2 xy + y 2 = 36 . If you
subtract statement 1 from statement 2, you
get x 2 = 4 , which is what you are looking
for. Therefore, the correct answer is (C).

37. First find the probability that it will rain

on one arrangement of two rainy days and
three sunny days (i.e. it will rain the first
two days and then not rain for the last
three days). This works out as follows:
4 4 6 6 6 2 2 33
× × × × = 5 . Now find
10 10 10 10 10 5
how many ways there are to arrange 2
rainy days and 3 sunny days:
5 × 4 × 3 × 2 ×1
= 10. Now multiply the
2 × 1× 3 × 2 × 1
probability of any one arrangement
happening times the number of
arrangements and you get
2 23 3 23 3 3
× 10 = or answer choice (E).
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