Sampling Techniques and Experimental Design

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Mrs. Horn samples her class by selecting every third person on her class list. Which type of sampling method is this?

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Systematic

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

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Cluster

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Farmer Joe's method of estimating apple production by counting apples in one region to predict the whole farm's production is _______ sampling. Options: Simple, Cluster, Stratified, Systematic

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Cluster

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Farmer Joe separates his farm into 10 regions and randomly selects 5 trees from each region to estimate the number of apples produced. This is _____________ sampling.

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Stratified

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

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Census

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To find out what the preferred ice cream flavor is, wait outside an ice cream parlor and ask every 4th person leaving the store to name his or her favorite flavor until you get 25 responses is an example of...

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Systematic Sample

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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.

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Simple Random Sample

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

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False

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Is using the first 5 people who walk in the door a good representative sample for average height?

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No

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

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Convenience sample