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WorksheetsIdentify Population and Sample
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
_______ is the entire group of objects or individuals considered for a survey.
Sample
Population
Random Sample
Quartile
Population or Sample?
A factory overseer selects 40 threaded rods at random from those produced that week at the factory, then she tests their tensile strength.
Population
Sample
Population or Sample?
A police officer measures the speed of all the cars that pass a specific point on the road during his shift.
Population
Sample
Cherokee County Schools randomly selected 230 teachers to find out which technology resource its teachers feel is the most effective. What is the population in this situation?
230 Teachers
All Cherokee County teachers
All Cedar Bluff teachers
All Sand Rock and Spring Garden students
Identify the population and sample for each example.
Population: Students
Sample: Members of the football team
Population: Members of the football team
Sample: Students
Population: Students
Sample: Students that have had a broken bone
Population: Members of the football team
Sample: Members of the football team that have broken a bone.
You look at a 5 mile stretch of Maui and count the number of traffic lights.
Population: 5 mile stretch of Maui
Sample: Number of Traffic Lights
Population: Number of Traffic Lights
Sample: 5 mile stretch of Maui
Population: Maui
Sample: Number of traffic lights
Population: 5 mile stretch of Maui
Sample: Maui
A computer manufacturer surveys every tenth customer who purchases a laptop computer to figure out what software the company should include with its computer. Identify the population and sample.
Population: Customers
Sample: Every tenth customer
Population: Customers
Sample: The customers that chose the most popular software
Population: Every tenth customer
Sample: The customers that chose the most popular software
Population: Every tenth customer
Sample: Customers
A survey company was trying to see if people in a state thought the pollution was too high. Which choice best represents a population?
Every person in the state
A selection of people from each neighborhood in the state
A selection of people who live near the highways
A selection of people who live in small towns
During a middle school baseball game, every spectator placed his or her ticket stub into a container. After the game, the coach chose eight people to march in the sportsmanship parade. What is the sample in this situation?
The coach
The ticket stubs
The eight people to march in the sportsmanship parade
The baseball game spectators
Identify the population and sample in the following survey: A telephone survey is given to 2,000 randomly selected families in order to predict the average amount of money American families spend on groceries each week. Which is the SAMPLE (the part)
AMERICA
2000 FAMILIES
Identify the population and sample in the following survey:
To determine the number of students who carry backpacks in school, Tina collects data on the first 100 students who enter the building.
Which is the POPULATION
students
first 100 students
Identify the Sample: The Huddle House 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 manager at Huddle House concluded that most customers do not order dessert. What is the SAMPLE in this scenario?
20 customers from Huddle House
All customers from Huddle House that evening
8 customers from Huddle House
The employees from Huddle House
What would be the population in this example?
Surveyors in a mall choose shoppers to ask about products they prefer.
the surveyors
all shoppers in the mall
the shoppers who were asked their preferences
The Magic Kingdom theme park has many attractions, one of which is Space Mountain. Are the people who ride Space Mountain the population or a sample of the theme park? Explain.
Population. They are all the people at the theme park.
Sample. They are a subset of all the people at the theme park.
Both population and sample. They are all the people at the theme park
Neither population nor sample. They are not the people at the theme park.
A survey company was trying to see if people in a state thought the pollution was too high. Which choice BEST represents the population to be surveyed?
a selection of people who live in small towns
a selection of people who live in clean neighborhoods
a selection of people from each city in the state
all the people in the state
A student surveys mathematics teachers to get their opinion on teaching. What is the sample?
All teachers in the world.
All teachers within the school.
All mathematics teachers in the school.
All teachers except mathematics teachers.
_______ is a part of a group being surveyed.
Sample
Population
Random Sample
Quartile
_________ is a sample in which each individual or object in the entire population has an equal chance of being selected.
Sample
Population
Random Sample
Quartile
The Magic Kingdom theme park has many attractions, one of which is Space Mountain. Are the people who ride Space Mountain the population, or a sample, of the theme park? Explain.
Population. They are all the people at the theme park.
Sample. They are a subset of all the people at the theme park.
Both population and sample. They are all the people at the theme park
Neither population nor sample. They are not the people at the theme park.
The captain of the basketball team wants to determine where the team should go for their end-of-season celebration. Which of the following is a representative sample? Select all that apply.
The students in her homeroom
Players whose names are randomly selected from a hat
The players in the starting lineup
All players over 5 feet tall
Every 5th player selected from an alphabetical roster of the team
