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Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 3hrs 22mins
Surveyors in a mall choose shoppers to ask about products they prefer.
Surveyors in a mall choose shoppers to ask about products they prefer.
Population or Sample?
A survey of 1353 Saudi households found that 18% of the households own a computer.
Population
Sample
What is the sample and population?
Number of McDonald's in a 25 miles2 area of Taif
Population: Number of McDonald's
Sample: 25 miles2 of Taif
Population: 25 miles2 of Taif
Sample: Number of McDonald's
Population: 25 miles2
Sample: Taif
Population: Taif
Sample: Number of McDonald's
Zoie completes a report by asking 70 students across campus. She found that 48% of CIAA students do not wash their hands after using the bathroom. What is the population of her survey?
the bathroom
CIAA students
48% of students
Susan polled 587 people throughout each city in her county. Each city is the same size. Is this sample of the residents of cities in the county likely to be random?
To determine how often people eat out, every tenth person entering a fast food restaurant is surveyed.
Random Sample
Representative Sample
Henry surveyed the first 7 celebrities to arrive at the movie premiere. What is the sample type?
Random
Representative
Eric surveyed 402 employees at the company who worked in Marketing.
What is the sample type?
Random Sample
Representative Sample
The TV station wants to get the opinion of viewers on the look of a new game-show set.
The station's staff calls random people in the phone book.
What is the sample type?
Random
Representative
To determine how often people eat out, every tenth person entering a fast food restaurant is surveyed.
Random Sample
Representative Sample
The city council in Middlefield wants to know if residents are in favor of a traffic camera at the main intersection in town. Which example is likely to produce a representative sample?
Drivers who reside in Middlefield
Residents chosen from the town register
All residents of Middlefield
All people with a five-letter last name
A movie theater considers upgrading to offer luxury seating. The manager randomly surveys 1,200 residents who live within 10 miles of the theater. What is the sample in this situation?
The 1,200 residents surveyed
1,500 randomly surveyed customers of the movie theater
All of the movie theater's customers
All residents who live within 10 miles of the theater
A student wants to know which type of pizza the students at her school prefer. Which option would give an unbiased, representative sample?
Asking 10 students from each homeroom.
9, 8, 12, 6, 10
What is the mean number of pages she wrote per day?
What is the mode?
4 , 8 , 5 , 17 , 5 , 4 , 9 , 5 , 6 , 82
4
9
6
5
Which is the MIDDLE of an ordered set of data?
Mean
Median
Mode
Range
Which is a synonym for "average?"
mean
median
mode
range
5, 11, 2, 12, 4, 2
What measure of central tendency (mean, median or mode) would be best for the following set of data?
0, 89, 92, 97, 99, 100
Mode, because it is the one that shows up the most.
Median, because there is an outlier. The outlier would influence the mean too much.
Mean, because you should always use the mean.
There is not a best measure of central tendency for this data.
What is the mode in the following numbers? [3, 24, 3, 7, 30, 1, 3, 7, 3]
3 and 7 both are modes
1 and 7 both are modes
3 only
7 only
Karen constructed the box-and-whisker plot below to show information about her first semester scores.
What was Karen's median test score?
70
85
90
95
If 60 values were used for the data, about how many data values are greater than the 1st quartile?
15
30
45
60
Use the data in the graph to make an inference.
If Hector has to close his shop either Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, what day should he close it?
Friday
Sunday
Thursday
Saturday
"I hate the idea of having all those people out there watching me...I just don't like it when I'm around so many people. I wish I just could hide somewhere," whispered Violet.
