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An independent research company wants to go door to door to survey people in the city of Fontana. The company decides to number all blocks within the city limit, randomly choose 50 blocks and survey all households on each selected block. 
This is an example of:

• Simple Random Sample
• Stratified Random Sample
• Cluster Random Sample
• Systematic Random Sampling

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To study the amount of time students spend doing homework each day, use a random number generator to select 25 students from the student enrollment database to survey.

• Convenience Sample
• Simple Random Sample
• Stratified Random Sample
• Interval Sample

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In a survey of 104 students, it was found that 79 went to the homecoming game this year.

Calculate a 99% confidence interval for p.

• (0.652, 0.868)

• (0.691, 0.829)

• (0.678, 0.842(

• (0.685, 0.895)

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CCSS.Math.Content.HSS.IC.B.4

Sra. Garces 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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In a certain school, students can choose whether to eat in the school’s cafeteria. A reporter working for the school’s newspaper polled students on their reactions to changes in the menu at the cafeteria. For each student leaving the cafeteria in one 20-minute time period, the reporter used a die to determine whether to stop the student and ask how he or she felt about the new menu. In the reporter’s article it was stated that a random sample of the students showed that 23% of the school’s student population was happy with the new menu. Which of the following statements is true?

• Because each student leaving the cafeteria was randomly selected and could choose to answer or not, this is a random sample of the student population, and the 23% is an accurate measurement of the school population’s view of the new menu.

• Because students self-selected whether to eat in the cafeteria, the sampling method might be biased and the sample might not be representative of all students in the school.

• The survey would have been more effective if the reporter had collected the data in one 10-minute time period rather than in one 20-minute time period.

• The survey would have been more effective if students who cared about the food could have called the reporter to tell how they felt about the new menu, so that only students with opinions on the subject would have been surveyed.

• Because no treatment was imposed on the students eating in the cafeteria, one cannot make any conclusions about the new menu.

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At a particular college, 78% of all students are receiving some kind of financial aid.The school newspaper selects a random sample of 100 students and 72% of the respondents say they are receiving some sort of financial aid. Which of the following is true?

•  78% is a population and 72% is a sample.
• 72% is a population and 78% is a sample
• 78% is a parameter and 72% is a statistic
• 72% is a parameter and 78% is a statistic

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CCSS.Math.Content.HSS.IC.B.4

There were 5,317 previously owned homes sold in a western city in the year 2000. The distribution of the sales prices of these homes was strongly right-skewed, with a mean of $206,274 and a standard deviation of $37,881. If all possible simple random samples of size 100 are drawn from this population and the mean is computed for each of these samples, which of the following describes the sampling distribution of the sample mean?

• Approximately normal with mean $206,274 and standard deviation $3,788

• Approximately normal with mean $206,274 and standard deviation $37,881

• Approximately normal with mean $206,274 and standard deviation $520

• Strongly right-skewed with mean $206,274 and standard deviation $3,788

• Strongly right-skewed with mean $206,274 and standard deviation $37,881

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A recent study was conducted to investigate the duration of time required to complete a certain manual dexterity task. The reported mean was 10.2 seconds with a standard deviation of 16.0 seconds. Suppose the reported values are the true mean and standard deviation for the population of subjects in the study. If a random sample of 144 subjects is selected from the population, what is the approximate probability that the mean of the sample will be more than 11.0 seconds?

• 0.1151

• 0.2743

• 0.7257

• 0.8849

• Based on the values of the true mean and true standard deviation, it can be concluded that the population distribution is not normal and therefore the probability cannot be calculated.

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What is a sample?

• A tool used to collect statistical data

• Statistics collected from an entire population

• The factual information collected from a survey or other source

• A subgroup chosen from a population

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Which of the following doesn’t result in some form of bias?

• Choosing AP students to survey regarding their GPA in order to estimate the average GPA in a school.

• Polling a group of potential voters outside a Republican campaign office in order to estimate the proportion of city residents who favor a particular candidate.

• Surveying people who work in the marketing department of a large corporation in order to assess employee satisfaction with management policies.

• Choosing a stratified random sample of juniors and seniors at a high school in order to estimate the proportion of juniors and seniors who plan to go on to college.

• Asking shoppers leaving a grocery store if they think groceries should cost less in order to estimate the proportion of city residents who think groceries cost too much.

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