WorksheetsAP Statistics Sampling
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 43mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Sam tested every 50th candy bar from the assembly line to make sure there were enough peanuts in each bar. He found 15% did not have enough peanuts. Which type of sampling did he use?
a)
Cluster
b)
Systematic
c)
Convenience
d)
Simple Random
2.
The teacher samples her class by randomly selecting 5 girls and then randomly selecting 7 boys. This type of sampling is called?
a)
Stratified
b)
Systematic
c)
SRS
d)
Cluster
3.
The teacher samples her class by selecting every third person on her class list. Which type of sampling method is this?
a)
SRS
b)
Systematic
c)
Stratified
d)
Cluster
4.
The teacher samples her class by selecting all students sitting at table 1 and table 5 in her classroom. This sampling technique is called?
a)
SRS
b)
Stratified
c)
Systematic
d)
Cluster
5.
The teacher samples her class by picking 10 names from slips of paper in a hat.
a)
Systematic
b)
SRS
c)
Stratified
d)
Cluster
6.
Farmer Joe separates his apple tree farm into 10 regions. He counts the number of apples produced in just one of the regions and uses that estimate to predict the number of apples produced on the whole farm. This is _______ sampling.
a)
SRS
b)
Cluster
c)
Stratified
d)
Systematic
7.
Source of bias that occurs when you ask people who are EASY to ask
a)
Response Bias
b)
Convenience Sampling
c)
Nonresponse
d)
Voluntary Response
8.
Farmer Joe randomly picks 25 trees using a random number generator to estimate the number of apples per tree.
a)
SRS
b)
Stratified
c)
Cluster
d)
Systematic
9.
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.
a)
Cluster
b)
Systematic
c)
Stratified
d)
SRS
10.
When one examines the entire population instead of a subgroup of the population, this is called a ____________.
a)
Sampling
b)
Census
c)
Bias
11.
A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys.
She selects the five closest to her desk.
She selects the five closest to her desk.
a)
simple random
b)
Voluntary Response
c)
Convenience
d)
Systematic Random
12.
Sampling method based upon LOCATION and you randomly pick a location and sample all there
a)
Stratified Sampling
b)
Simple Random Sampling (SRS)
c)
Cluster Sampling
d)
Systematic Sampling
13.
A ___ is a small portion of the population used to gather data from.
a)
Systematic Sampling Method
b)
Sample
c)
Population
d)
Bias
14.
The population describes:
a)
The group of people being surveyed
b)
part of the group being surveyed
c)
the whole world
d)
the school
15.
Mrs. Boyd wants to find the average height of all her students in her classes. She decides to use the first 5 people who walk in the door. Is this a good representative sample?
a)
Yes
b)
No
16.
Mr. Howard, the psychology teacher, invited his students stay after school to participate in a study on learning styles so that he could better understand how to teach them. 15 of his students participated. Is this sample of the teacher's students likely to be biased?
a)
Yes
b)
No
17.
Devon polled 642 drivers late on a Friday night.
Is this a random sample of the drivers in the city?
Is this a random sample of the drivers in the city?
a)
Yes because this represents all the drivers in the city well.
b)
No, because this only represents people late on a friday night
18.
Brandon put on a blindfold and picked 2 jelly beans from a jar.
Is this sample of the jelly beans in the jar likely to be biased?
Is this sample of the jelly beans in the jar likely to be biased?
a)
Yes
b)
No
19.
Identify the Population:
Wicomico County Public Schools randomly selected 230 teachers to find out which technology resource it's teachers feel is the most effective.
Wicomico County Public Schools randomly selected 230 teachers to find out which technology resource it's teachers feel is the most effective.
a)
230 Teachers
b)
All Wicomico County Teachers
c)
Students
d)
Wicomico County Public Schools
20.
Identify the Sample:
A restaurant wants to know if their customers buy dessert when they eat out. As people leave the restaurant one evening, 20 people are surveyed at random. Eight people say they usually order dessert when they eat out. The restaurant concluded that most customers do not order dessert.
A restaurant wants to know if their customers buy dessert when they eat out. As people leave the restaurant one evening, 20 people are surveyed at random. Eight people say they usually order dessert when they eat out. The restaurant concluded that most customers do not order dessert.
a)
20 customers
b)
All customers
c)
8 customers
d)
Dessert
21.
What is it called when some groups in the population are left out of the sampling process?
a)
nonresponse
b)
bias
c)
response bias
d)
undercoverage
22.
What is it called when an individual chosen for the sample cannot be contacted or refused to participate?
a)
nonresponse
b)
bias
c)
response bias
d)
undercoverage
23.
A nonsampling error occurs when someone gives an incorrect response to a sample survey. What is it called when a systematic pattern of incorrect responses occurs?
a)
nonresponse
b)
bias
c)
response bias
d)
undercoverage
24.
The superintendent of a small district has randomly chosen 15 faculty members at a middle school to personally ask if they feel the superintendent is doing a solid job of leading the district. Which sampling design flaw describes this scenario
a)
Voluntary Response
b)
Response Bias
c)
Nonresponse
d)
Undercoverage
25.
An opinion poll company in North Dakota sends out their surveyors to knock on doors in Fargo from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Which sampling design flaw best describes the scenario
a)
Convenience Sample
b)
Nonresponse
c)
Undercoverage
d)
none of the above
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