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WorksheetsCP8-6.1-Planning and Collecting Data
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 4mins
What would you do if you need to make an event happen so you can record your observations?
Conduct a survey
Conduct an experiment
Carry out an interview
Create a questionnaire
Complete this working out to find a 10% sample of 600.
10% of 600 = _____× 600
= 60
1
10
100
1/10
Which method should you use to collect data about the favourite subject of students in your school?
Conduct an experiment
Complete a questionnaire
Record your observations
There are 12 bags of apples in a box. You want to record the number of apples in each bag. Should you take a sample of the bags or count all the bags?
Take a sample
Count all the bags
Which method should be used to record the number of times a 4 is rolled on a normal dice?
Conduct an experiment
Complete a questionnaire
Record your observations
You want to compare the results from a survey in your school by comparing boys' answers to girls' answers.
There are 420 boys in the school and 380 girls.
Which of these statements is true?
You should ask the same number of boys and girls.
Every student must complete the survey.
You should ask 42 boys and 38 girls.
Select the data that cannot be collected using an experiment.
The time it takes someone to complete 10 jumps.
The number of arithmetic questions that can be completed in 1 minute.
The favourite sport of a group of students.
There are 12 000 houses in a town. A sample of houses are being sent a questionnaire to conduct a survey.
How many houses should be sent the questionnaire?
(a) houses
Mike wants to find out if people in his town go to the cinema regularly.
Which of these methods could he use?
Conduct a survey of people who live in his street.
Ask four of his friends in the town if they go to the cinema.
Send a questionnaire in the post to every address in the town.
Ask people in the centre of the town if they go to the cinema regularly.
You are going to survey the heights of students in the school.
How accurately should you measure their heights?
To the nearest mm
To the nearest cm
To the nearest m
To conduct an experiment to record how fast someone in an athletics club can run 100 m, you take a sample of 25 people in the club.
How many people are there likely to be in the athletics club?
25
50
250
1000
A village is conducting a census of people living in the village.
Which method should they use?
Interview 10% of the population.
Send a questionnaire to every home to be completed.
Survey people using the shops in the village.
Stop and interview people driving through the village.
