Sampling Techniques in Statistics

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting 5 girls and 5 boys.  This type of sampling is called?

• Stratified
• Systematic
• Random

• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting every third person on her class list.  Which type of sampling method is this?

• Random

• Systematic
• Stratified
• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by picking 10 numbers from her hat and each number is assigned to a student. This is ______________ random sampling.

• Systematic
• Random

• Stratified
• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Farmer Joe's apple tree farm is set up in 100 rows.  He counts the number of apples produced on every 10th row to estimate the number apples produced on the whole farm.  This is _____________ sampling.  

• Simple
• Stratified
• Cluster
• Systematic

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Farmer Joe randomly picks 100 trees using a random number generator to estimate the number of apples produced by his apple trees.  This is ______________ sampling.

• Random

• Stratified
• Cluster
• Systematic

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

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
• Random

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

In order to use samples to estimate something from the population, the sample should be _________________ the population.

• exactly the same as
• nothing like
• representative of
• larger than

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

What kind of sampling technique is the following:

List the names of all the students alphabetically and contact the parent of every 25th student.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

What kind of sample technique is the following:

Select at random 150 parents and send them a survey.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What kind of sample technique is the following:

Selecting every 8th person in line for a water slide.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3