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- 1. Fill in the Blank
If you survey every third house on a street, what type of sampling technique are you using?
- 2. Multiple Choice
Sporting Illustrated collects data on its readers by asking them to fill out and send in a survey from the June issue.
Convenience
Systematic
Stratified
Simple Random
- 3. Multiple Choice
A group of lobbyists has a list of 100 senators. They decide to talk to every 7th senator on the list about their position on farm subsidies.
Convenience
Systematic
Stratified
Simple Random
- 4. Multiple Choice
A teacher puts all her students' names in hat, then selects 3 names from the hat. These students will take a standardized test.
Convenience
Systematic
Stratified
Simple Random
- 5. Multiple Choice
The president of a college randomly selects 2 students from each department to serve on a student advisory board.
Convenience
Systematic
Stratified
Simple Random
- 6. Fill in the Blank
If you choose 5 bingo balls from a basket of 50 balls, what sampling technique are you using?
- 7. Multiple Choice
Political webpages often allow readers to rate (if they want to) whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with the President's decision on any given situation. This is a form of:
Self-Selected
Convenience Sampling
Simple Random Sampling
Systematic Random Sampling
- 8. Multiple Choice
A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys.
She selects the five closest to her desk.
simple random
Self Selected.
Convenience
Systematic Random
- 9. Multiple Choice
A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys.
She picks the student in every 5th seat.
Simple Random
Systematic
voluntary response
convenience
- 10. Multiple Choice
An independent research company wants to go door to door to survey people in the city of Fontana. The company decides to number all blocks within the city limit, randomly choose 1 block and survey all households on that block.
This is an example of:
Simple Random Sample
Stratified Random Sample
Cluster Random Sample
Systematic Random Sampling
- 11. Multiple Choice
A teacher hands out an index card and asks ALL of her students to write down the following information: age, height (in inches), and what grade they are in.
Which of the following best describes her method of data collection?
Census
Simple Random Sample
Cluster Random Sample
Stratified Random Sample
- 12. Multiple ChoiceA ___ is a large group that includes everything being studied.SampleStratified Sampling MethodPopulationVoluntary-Response
- 13. Multiple Choice
State the type of sample.
In order to determine the average IQ of ninth-grade students, a school psychologist obtains a list of all schools in the local public school system. She randomly selects five of these schools and administers an IQ test to all ninth-grade students at the selected schools.
Stratified Random Sample
Cluster Sample
SRS
Random Sample
- 14. Multiple Choice
State the type of sample.
A radio station asks its listeners to call in their opinion regarding the use of American forces in peacekeeping missions.
Voluntary Response Sample
Cluster Sample
Convenience Sample
Stratified Random Sample
- 15. Multiple Choice
A political polling group is interested in learning about the proportion of registered voters who favor a particular candidate for mayor. Which of the following sampling plans may have introduced bias?
Individuals were selected randomly to participate from a list of registered voters.
Every 50th person on a list of registered voters was contacted and asked to identify who they would vote for in the upcoming election.
A list of registered voters was first separated into two lists—one of males and one of females. Then individuals were selected at random from each of the two lists.
A survey was mailed to all registered voters and those who returned the survey make up the sample
None of the above sampling plans creates the potential for bias.
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which of the following doesn’t result in some form of bias?
Choosing AP students to survey regarding their GPA in order to estimate the average GPA in a school.
Polling a group of potential voters outside a Republican campaign office in order to estimate the proportion of city residents who favor a particular candidate.
Surveying people who work in the marketing department of a large corporation in order to assess employee satisfaction with management policies.
Choosing a stratified random sample of juniors and seniors at a high school in order to estimate the proportion of juniors and seniors who plan to go on to college.
Asking shoppers leaving a grocery store if they think groceries should cost less in order to estimate the proportion of city residents who think groceries cost too much.
- 17. Multiple Choice
A department store mails a customer satisfaction survey to people who make credit card purchases at the store. This month, 45,000 people made credit card purchases. Surveys are mailed to 1000 of these people, chosen at random, and 137 people return the survey form. Identify the population and the sample.
P: 45,000 people who made credit card purchases.
S: 137 returned surveys.
P: 1,000 people that made credit card purchases who received a survey
S: 137 returned surveys.
P: 45,000 people who made credit card purchases.
S: 1,000 people that made credit card purchases who received a survey
P: All people who that have made credit card purchases.
S: 1,000 people that made credit card purchases who received a survey
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