Stats 7B

The average speed of 1500 vehicles traveled on a stretch of highway that day is 67 miles per hour with a standard deviation of 3.5 miles per hour. If 100 vehicles are randomly selected as samples, what would be the mean of the resulting sampling distribution of sample means?

• 63.5

• 67

• 70.5

• 74

The average speed of 1500 vehicles traveled on a stretch of highway that day is 67 miles per hour with a standard deviation of 3.5 miles per hour. If 100 vehicles are randomly selected as samples, what would be the standard error of the resulting sampling distribution of sample means?

• 0.52

• 0.43

• 0.34

• 0.25

A population has a mean of 60 and a standard deviation of 5. A random sample of 16 measurements is drawn from this population. Describe the sampling distribution of the sample means by computing its mean. Assume that the population is infinite.

• 60

• 65

• 70

• 75

Dylan wants to know how the students at his school rate the cafeteria.  He surveyed his school's basketball team to rate the school cafeteria. Is this a biased sample of the school's population?

• Yes, because it is a convenience survey
• No, the basketball team has the smartest students
• Yes, because it's voluntary survey
• No, he should have asked the football team

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.

• 230 Teachers
• All Wicomico County Teachers
• Students
• Wicomico County Public Schools

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.

• 20 customers
• All customers
• 8 customers
• Dessert

If I wanted to know how many blades of grass are inside the track, which sampling method could I use?

• Have my students count every blade of grass
• Guess
• Divide the grassy area into 1 inch sections, randomly pick several sections to count, average them together and multiply that by the total square inches.

Ana wants to know the average student’s opinion of the tardy policy at her school. Which group of students should she survey in order to achieve the most accurate results?

• thirty students who are often tardy
• thirty students who are rarely tardy
• thirty of her friends
• thirty randomly selected students from her school

The population describes:

• The group of people, objects or events being surveyed
• a part of the group being surveyed
• the whole world
• the school

True or False: all samples lead to a good prediction about an entire population.

• True
• False