Sampling Populations Q1

Dylan wants to know how the students at his school rate the cafeteria.  He surveyed his school's basketball team to rate the school cafeteria. Is this a biased sample of the school's population?

• Yes, because it is a convenience survey
• No, the basketball team has the smartest students
• Yes, because it's voluntary survey
• No, he should have asked the football team

Identify the Population:
Wicomico County Public Schools randomly selected 230 teachers to find out which technology resource it's teachers feel is the most effective.

• 230 Teachers
• All Wicomico County Teachers
• Students
• Wicomico County Public Schools

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.

• 20 customers
• All customers
• 8 customers
• Dessert

If I wanted to know how many blades of grass are inside the track, which sampling method could I use?

• Have my students count every blade of grass
• Guess
• Divide the grassy area into 1 inch sections, randomly pick several sections to count, average them together and multiply that by the total square inches.

Ana wants to know the average student’s opinion of the tardy policy at her school. Which group of students should she survey in order to achieve the most accurate results?

• thirty students who are often tardy
• thirty students who are rarely tardy
• thirty of her friends
• thirty randomly selected students from her school

You want to know what is the most favorite sport of 7th graders at BMS.  You ask 7th graders who want to participate to go to the office 5th period to complete a survey.  This is...

• Biased, because it is a convenience sample
• Unbiased
• Biased because it is an interval sample
• Biased because it is a volunteer sample

The population describes:

• The group of people, objects or events being surveyed
• a part of the group being surveyed
• the whole world
• the school

True or False: all samples lead to a good prediction about an entire population.

• True
• False

If there are 27 ponds around a lake, and biologists study 17 of them randomly to check the health of water around the lake Is that a biased sample?

• Yes
• No

At a middle school, the 7th graders will conduct a survey to decide where they want to go on a field trip. Which method will result in the least biased decision?

• to randomly ask 8th grade students who went on a field trip last year
• to randomly choose some 7th grade students to select a location
• to ask all 7th grade teachers and administrators for a location
• to ask the student council to choose a location