Experimental Design and Sampling Unit Review

A poll is taken from 100 seniors in a high school where the senior class has 575 students. This is an example of a ______________.

• Sample

• Population

Disneyland often surveys its guests as they exit a restaurant during their visit. The surveyor stands at the restaurant exit, counts the number of people leaving, and surveys every 25th guest.

This is a form of:

• Simple Random Sample

• Systematic Sampling

• Voluntary Response

• Stratified Sampling

210 college students were randomly assigned to play either a violent or nonviolent video game.  A short time later, the students were presented with the opportunity to trivially harm another person and results comparing the two groups were recorded.
Is this study OBSERVATIONAL or EXPERIMENTAL? 

• Observational

• Experimental

Farmer Joe separates his apple tree farm into 10 regions.  He counts the number of apples produced in just one of the regions and uses that estimate to predict the number of apples produced on the whole farm.  This is _______ sampling.

• Simple

• Cluster

• Stratified

• Systematic

Farmer Joe separates his farm into 10 regions.  He then randomly selected 5 trees from each region to estimate the number of apples produced on his apple tree farm.  This is _____________ sampling.  

• Cluster

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple

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

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

To determine whether sugar affects an athlete’s performance at practice, Coach Barron gave half the team doughnuts for breakfast and the other half whole grain cereal. He compared the two groups in terms of endurance and energy. This is an example of:

• Observational Study

• Experimental Study

Interview every 10th student who enters the school in the morning.

• simple random

• voluntary response

• systematic

• convenience