Statistics Vocab

Lucio wants to know whether the food he serves in his restaurant are within a safe range of temperatures. He randomly selects 70 entrees and measures their temperatures just before he serves them to his customers.

• The population is all of the hot entrees Lucio serves; the sample is the entrees that are a safe temperature.

• The population is the 70 selected entrees; the sample is the entrees that are a safe temperature.

• The population is all of the entrees Lucio serves; the sample is the 70 selected entrees.

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

The entire group studied.

• sample
• population

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.7.SP.A.2

The part of the population being studied

• population
• sample
• random

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.7.SP.A.2

A sample that is by chance.

• random sample
• stratified sample
• systematic sample

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.7.SP.A.2

You want to know how many students catch the bus to go home.  You go to the bus stop and ask students how they go home from school.  Is this a random sample or biased sample?

• BIASED
• RANDOM

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.7.SP.A.2

The leaf is 5 mm wide.

• qualitative

• quantitative

There are 75 trees in the forest.

• qualitative

• quantitative

The clouds are grey and ground is wet.

• qualitative

• quantitative

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The leaves on the plant are turning brown.

• qualitative

• quantitative

• both

• neither

Type of animals in a barn.

• Univariate
• Bivariate