Determine if the following is an example of a biased or unbiased sample. A car salesman wants to know how many people want a car. He calls every 5th person from a phone book.

• Bias

• Unbiased

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Determine if the following is an example of a biased or unbiased sample. The first 50 people in the park with dogs were asked if they liked unleashed dogs in the park.

• Bias

• Unbiased

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Determine which of the following statement is descriptive in nature or inferential. A prediction has been made that the chance that a person will be robbed in a certain city is 15%.

• Inferential

• Descriptive

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

Determine which of the following statement is descriptive in nature or inferential. A recent survey of 2000 adults having an MBA reported that the average salary is more than $65,000 a year.

• Inferential

• Descriptive

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

Determine which of the following statement is descriptive in nature or inferential. The chances of you getting a new car is about the same as passing your math class.

• Inferential

• Descriptive

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

Determine which of the following statement is descriptive in nature or inferential. The senior citizens that live in Florida have better memories than the ones that live in Texas.

• Inferential

• Descriptive

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.5

A gaming website wanted to find out which console its visitors owned. Which choice BEST represents the population in this situation?

• Visitors with an ‘e’ in their user name.

• Visitors to the 3DS section.

• Visitors over 22.

• All the website visitors.

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

Identify the population and parameter. To determine the food preferences of their customers, the owners of a restaurant randomly choose 20 customers on Friday to participate in a survey.

• Population: the 20 randomly chosen customers surveyed Parameter: food preferences for the 20 randomly chosen customers

• Population: all customers of the restaurant Parameter: food preferences for all of the restaurant’s customers

• Population: all people in the nation Parameter: food preferences for the 20 randomly chosen customers

• None of these

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What is a smaller, representative group drawn from a population?

• Unit

• Sample

• Parameter

• Statistic

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

The characteristic used to describe a sample

• Parameter

• Statistic

• Population

• Census