LP 4 Ticket Practice

An NBA team hands out a survey at a home game. The survey asks: Should the city and state governments help build a new stadium and save the team from being relocated? Is this an example of bias?

• Yes
• No

A restaurant wants to know if 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. What was the sample?

• Everyone in the United States
• Customers at the restuarant
• 20 people who were asked
• 8 customers who bought a dessert

Two students were selected for an anxiety medicine study. John receives the actual medication while Scott receives a sugar pill (with no medication in it). Which student is receiving a placebo?

• John
• Scott

A _________ is the entire group that you want to draw conclusions about.

• population
• bias
• placebo
• ethics

You collected data on whether lack of exercise leads to weight gain. You found that lack of exercise had no effect on weight gain. What is the confounding variable involved in the data collection?

• Amount of calories consumed
• exercise
• weight gain
• No confounding variable involved

A _________ is a smaller group selected from the population for the purpose of the study.

• sample

• variable

• control group

• hypothesis

A school wants to know if students prefer online classes over in-person classes. They survey 50 students at random and find that 30 students prefer online classes. What is the population in this study?

• All students in the school

• 50 students who were surveyed

• 30 students who prefer online classes

• All students in the city

A beverage company wanted to see if people in the United States liked their new logo. Which choice best represents a population?

• A selection of logo artists
• Every person in the United States
• A selection of shoppers from different states
• 3,800 children ages 5-15

Two dogs were selected for a flea medicine study. Fido receives the actual medication while Coco receives a sugar pill (with no medication in it). Which dog is receiving the placebo?

• Fido
• Coco

A ___________ is a specific group that you will collect data from.

• bias
• placebo
• sample
• ethics