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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 May;133(1):357–366. doi: 10.1007/s10549-012-1960-5
 1. * A person taking Drug A has a 1% chance of having an allergic reaction. If 100 people take Drug A, how many would you expect to have an allergic reaction? _____ person(s) out of 100
 2. A person taking Drug B has a 3 in 10 chance of an allergic reaction. What percent of people taking Drug B will have an allergic reaction? _____ %
 3. Which of the following number represents the biggest chance of getting a disease? 1% 10% 5% Answer: _____
 4. If Person A’s chance of getting a disease is 1%, and person B’s chance is double that of A’s, what is B’s risk? Answer: _____
 5. * If the chance of getting a disease is 20 out of 100, this would be the same as having a _____ % chance of getting the disease. Answer: _____
 6. If the chance of getting a disease is 10%, how many people would be expected to get the disease:
  A: Out of 100? Answer A:_____
  B: Out of 1,000? Answer B:_____
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 7. * In the CALIFORNIA LOTTERY, the chance of winning a $10,000 prize is 1%. How many people will win a $10,000 prize if 1,000 people each buy a single ticket to CALIFORNIA LOTTERY? Answer:_____ person(s) out of 1,000
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Note: These three items could be used for a quick assessment of numeracy