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Sampling Types

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The number of people in a room

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

2.

The number of pages in a book

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

3.

The time taken to complete a pazzle

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

4.

The number of glasses in dishwasher

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

5.

The volume of water in a bottle

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

6.

The mass of a book

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

7.

The number of letters in a story

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

8.

The length of a wire

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

9.

The size of a shoe

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

10.

The weight of an apple

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

11.

A principal decides to change his sampling strategy. He is now choosing randomly ten percent of the students from each class. State the type of sampling.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

12.

A school principal gathers an alphabetical list of all the students at her school.  Then she selects every 15th student to take a survey about the cafeteria’s lunch menu.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

13.

You randomly pick a card from a jar filled with similar cards.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

14.

An online sports advertisement asks you to participate in a survey because you play that sport.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

15.

The manager of Save Mart wants to ask random shoppers who bring their own bags. He asks every 5th shopper entering the Mart.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

16.

A magazine publisher mails a survey to the first 100 subscribers of their magazine.  The survey asks for four favorite leisure activities.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

17.

You throw an arrow and if you hit a score higher than 150 points you are enrolled to win a small prize, if you hit a score higher than 250 you are enrolled to win a big prize.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

18.

To determine a community’s reading habits, a newspaper conducts a poll from a table near the exit of a history museum.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

19.

A factory manager wants to find out what his workers think about the factory canteen, the manager wants to gather 80 responses out of 300 from different age groups as it will have different opinions.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

20.

You want a sample of 50 students about their thoughts on the new iPhone, but they must be iPhone users.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

21.

A supermarket wants to check if the avocados are rip or not. There are 1000 avocados in the supermarket if the manager takes 20 random samples to check their ripeness. What is the sampling type?

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

22.

The 1000 avocados are placed in 100 boxes. If the manager takes 2 avocados from each box to check their ripeness. What is the sampling type?

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

23.

The 1000 avocados are placed in 100 boxes. If the manager checks the ripeness of the first 5 boxes only. What is the sampling type?

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

24.

There 6 types of avocadoes within the 1000 avocados, if the manager takes 5 random avocadoes from each type. State the sampling type.

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified

25.

There 6 types of avocadoes within the 1000 avocados, if the manager decides to check the ripeness of Reed and Hass avocados types only. What is the sampling type?

a)

Simple

b)

Convenience

c)

Systematic

d)

Quota

e)

Stratified