Sampling

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

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

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

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.B.5

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

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

The population describes:

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

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.7.SP.A.2

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

• True
• False

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

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

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Unbiased sampling is:

• when you choose the group you think will give you the answer you want, accept volunteers or survey by convenience
• when any member of the population is equally likely to be chosen for the sample

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

In order to use samples to estimate something from the population, the sample should be _________________ the population.

• exactly the same as
• nothing like
• representative of
• larger than

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

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

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Sam tested every 50th candy bar from the assembly line to make sure there were enough peanuts in each bar.  He found 15% did not have enough peanuts.  How many candy bars do not have enough peanuts if the factory produces 20,000 candy bars?

• 300
• 3,000
• 300,000
• 50

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.1

CCSS.HSA.REI.B.3

CCSS.HSA.SSE.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4