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Planning and Collecting Data

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An information that you collect yourself it's called ....

a)

question

b)

primary data

c)

secondary data

d)

survey

2.

Secondary data is ...

a)

data that you collect it yourself

b)

data that you found in secondary school

c)

data that someone else has already collected

d)

data that has a lot of things of secondary things

3.

If I doing a survey, the distance a person can cylce in 1 hour. Which units would I use to measure ?

a)

seconds

b)

metres

c)

kilometres

d)

hours

4.

Today Jason want to doing a survey of the length of time a person sleeps at night. Which units wolud he use to measure ?

a)

seconds

b)

days

c)

hours

d)

metres

5.

Where wolud I get data if I want to know how many students cycle to school ?

a)

google

b)

wikipedia

c)

school principal

d)

school admin

6.

One way of collecting data is to carry out a survey and ask people question with using a ....

a)

questionnaire

b)

interview

c)

announcement

d)

poster

7.

The population of a village is 986. Mason wants to know how oftern the people in the village use the village hall. He decide to ask a sample of the population. How many people should be in his sample?

a)

a half of the population

b)

all of them

c)

just 10 % of them

d)

250 people

8.

The population of a village is 340. The local nurse wants to know how often the people in the village visit the doctor. She decides to ask a sample of the population. How many people should there be in her sample?

a)

340

b)

25

c)

34

d)

43

9.

Would you collect primary data or secondary data to answer this question. Which countries in the world have active volcanoes?

(a)  

10.

Which of these answers should not be included?

a)

none

b)

1-2 hours

c)

3-4 hours

d)

more than 4 hours

e)

too much

11.

What is the total number of children in all the families ?

(a)  

12.
Write down whether each set of data is   discrete   or   continuous.
the number of  flowers in a garden.
a)
discrete
b)
continuous
13.
how many students are there who get the point between 10 and 19 ?
a)
2
b)
3
14.
a)
b)

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