Random Sampling Vocabulary

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Choosing a sample in a way that everyone has an equal chance of being in the sample.

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Random Sampling

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What type of a survey is it when every person in the population has an equal chance of being selected?

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Simple Random Sample

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When each member of a population has an equal choice of being chosen the method is called what?

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Random Sample

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Andre wants to survey a random sample of the student body in his school to find out which day after school would work best for students to do volunteer work for a local charity. Which sample would best represent the student body?

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asking one person each from twenty different classrooms during the first class period

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_________ is a sample in which each individual or object in the entire population has an equal chance of being selected.

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Random Sample

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A sample in which each individual or object in the entire population has an equal chance of being selected.

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random sample

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Who should Thomas ask for his survey?

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Thomas should ask 30 students in the seventh grade.

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Which is an example of a random sample?

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Drawing 10 names from a hat

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Identify the Sample:
A restaurant wants to know if their customers buy dessert when they eat out. As people leave the restaurant one evening, 20 people are surveyed at random. Eight people say they usually order dessert when they eat out. The restaurant concluded that most customers do not order dessert.

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20 customers

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Which sample is more likely to be random? You want to know the most popular book among all the students at your school.

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You ask students from different grades at your school.