CAPSTONE RESEARCH FORMATIVE#1

1. A large bakery mass produces cakes on an assembly line. Each shift, a quality control expert randomly selects one of the first ten finished cakes, and every tenth cake thereafter. Employees weigh those cakes and give the cakes a detailed visual check. What type of sample is this?

• Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample

2. A school chooses 3 randomly selected athletes from each of its sports teams to participate in a survey about athletics at the school. What type of sample is this?

• Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample

3. A manager associated each employee's name with a number on one ball in a container, then drew balls without looking to select a sample of 5 employees. What type of sample is this?

• Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample

4. A hospital wants to survey religious participants in their city about what they seek from a hospital chaplain, so they randomly select 5 religious meetings in the city and survey every participant in those meetings. What type of sample is this?

• A. Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample

5. A manager at a pizza shop wants to start visually checking finished pizzas, but she doesn't have time to check every pizza. She decides to check a random pizza in the first 20 made each day, and then check every 20th pizza thereafter. What type of sample is this?

• Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample

6. A large company surveys 10 employees by taking random samples of 10managers and 90non-managerial employees. What type of sample is this?

• Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample

7. Each law firm in one state registers its phone number with the state court system. An employee of the state court system uses a computer to select 500 random registered phone numbers, and the law firms associated with those numbers will be selected for an audit. What type of sample is this?

• Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample

9. An airline company wants to survey its customers one day, so they randomly select 5 flights that day and survey every passenger on those flights. What type of sample is this?

• Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample

9. Employees at a website want to select a sample of their users to ask for a donation. They randomly select one of the first 25 users each day and show them a message asking for a donation. They also show the message to every 25th user from that point on. What type of sample is this?

• Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample

10. A truck manufacturer selects 3 trucks at random from each of 6models for safety testing. What type of sample is this?

• Simple random sample

• Stratified random sample

• Cluster random sample

• Systematic random sample