Sampling Methods Statistics Algebra

If you survey every third house on a street, what type of sampling technique are you using?

A group of lobbyists has a list of 100 senators. They decide to talk to every 7th senator on the list about their position on farm subsidies.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

A teacher puts all her students' names in hat, then selects 3 names from the hat. These students will take a standardized test.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

State the type of sample. In order to determine the average IQ of ninth-grade students, a school psychologist obtains a list of all schools in the local public school system. She randomly selects five of these schools and administers an IQ test to all ninth-grade students at the selected schools.

• Stratified Random Sample

• Cluster Sample

• SRS

• Random Sample

• A

• D

• F

• B

• C

What type of sampling is shown?

• Simple Random Sample

• Systematic Sample

• Cluster Sample

• Stratified Sample

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

• voluntary response

• convenience

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.

Assign each car in a dealership a number and then use a random-number table to select the cars to be inspected. 

• systematic

• simple random sample

• convenience

• volunteer response

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 Random

• voluntary response

• convenience