AP Statistics Sampling

A teacher puts all her students' names in hat, then selects 3 names from the hat. These students will take a standardized test.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

If you survey every third house on a street, what type of sampling technique are you using?

A group of lobbyists has a list of 100 senators. They decide to talk to every 7th senator on the list about their position on farm subsidies.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

If you choose 5 bingo balls from a basket of 50 balls, what sampling technique are you using?

• A

• B

• C

• D

• E

Involves dividing the population into subgroups, you randomly select entire subgroups. What sampling technique is this?

• Simple Random Sample

• Snowball Sample

• Cluster Random Sample

• Stratified Random Sample

• A

• B

• C

• D

• E

These symbols represent the mean and standard deviation for which of the following distributions?

• The Population

• The Sample

• The Sampling Distribution

The school district is interested in finding out student and parent opinions about the dress code.  They obtain a list of students from each school in the district and put them in alphabetical order.  They then send a survey to every 25th student and their parents on the list.

• Simple Random Sampling

• Stratified Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Convenience Sampling

The histogram represents data obtained after a census of an entire population. The sampling distribution of the sample mean based on samples of size 2 were simulated, and a histogram of the results was produced. Which of the following histograms is most likely the histogram of that sampling distribution?

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