Sampling

The city of Cedar Bluff has 832 registered voters. The election for mayor has 3 candidates. A telephone poll taken a day before the election of 67 voters that are friends of the candidates shows these results: 30 Smith, 27 Jones, 10 Brown. Name the sampling method used for this survey.

• Convenience Sample

• Random Sample

What is the outlier of this group of data taken from a survey

• 94

• 92

• 42

• 87

The entire group of objects or individuals considered for a survey is called a _________________________

• outlier

• population

• sample

_______ is a part of a group being surveyed.

• Sample

• Population

• Random Sample

• Quartile

At a middle school, the 7th graders will conduct a survey for where 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

A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys.
She picks the student in every 5th seat.

• Simple Random

• Systematic 

• Unbiased

• convenience

Josh surveyed every 5th person who walked into the cafeteria. Is this a systematic random sample

• No

• Yes

How many more people 19 and under are in the French club than the Spanish club?

• 1

• 3

• 2

• 4