Mid Term Review

Ms. Nichol samples her class by selecting all students sitting at group 1 and group 5 in her classroom. This sampling technique is called?

• Simple

• Stratified

• Systematic

• Cluster

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

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.

• Simple
• Cluster
• Stratified
• Systematic

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

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.  

• Cluster
• Systematic
• Stratified
• Simple

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

When one examines the entire population instead of a subgroup of the population, this is called a ____________.

• Sampling
• Census
• Bias

To study the amount of time students spend doing homework each day, use a random number generator to select 25 students from the student enrollment database to survey.

• Convenience Sample
• Simple Random Sample
• Stratified Random Sample
• Interval Sample

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.MD.B.6

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

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

Sra. Garces 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?

• Yes

• No

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

What type of sampling is this? A journalist asks his family how they feel about water pollution.

• Random sample

• Convenience sample

• Stratified Random sample

• Census

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What type of sampling is this? Soybeans are planted on a 48-acre field. The field is divided into one acre subplots. A sample of plants is taken from each subplot to estimate the harvest.

• Random sample

• Convenience sample

• Stratified Random sample

• Census

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What type of sampling?  A student asks 12 friends to participate in a psychology experiment. 

• Random sample
• Convenience sample
• Stratified Random sample
• Census

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3