Sampling Method

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting 5 girls and 7 boys.  This type of sampling is called?

• Stratified
• Systematic
• Simple
• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What kind of sampling technique is the following:

List the names of all the students alphabetically and contact the parent of every 25th student.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

What kind of sample technique is the following:

Select at random 150 parents and send them a survey.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What kind of sample technique is the following:

Question everyone in the cafeteria.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

When one examines the entire population instead of a subgroup of the population, this is called a ____________.

• Sampling
• Census
• Bias

Farmer Joe separates his farm into 10 regions.  He then randomly selected 5 trees from each region to estimate the number of apples produced on his apple tree farm.  This is _____________ sampling.  

• Cluster
• Systematic
• Stratified
• Simple

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Mrs. Boyd wants to find the average height of all her students in her classes. She decides to use the first 5 people who walk in the door. Is this a good representative sample?

• Yes
• No

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

_______ is the entire group of objects or individuals considered for a survey.

• Sample
• Population
• Random Sample
• Quartile

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

A computer manufacturer surveys its customers who purchased laptop computers to ask what software the company should include with its computer.  Identify the population.

• Customers who purchased laptop computers.
• Customers of the store.
• Customers who are interested in software.
• Computer manufacturers

A gaming website wanted to find out which console its visitors owned.
Which choice best represents the population?

• Visitors to the 3DS section.
• All of the website visitors.
• Visitors to the PS4 section.
• Visitors who are on the website for more than 5 minutes.

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4