Sample and Population Math

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Mathematics
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7th Grade
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Hard
Anthony Clark
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18 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Vanessa’s class is studying the number of car commercials on television between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. for five days. Which is the best sample for Vanessa to use?
The commercials between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on each day
The first five commercials each of the five days
The commercials shown between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on a randomly chosen day
The commercials shown between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on three randomly chosen days
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
To try to predict the outcome of the vote for the school board election school board election, a town manager used random numbers to pick 100 registered voters. She then called these voters and asked how they planned to vote. Is the sample taken in this problem representative of the population?
No, because it does not contain the same number of subjects as the population.
Yes, because it is a systematic sample.
Yes, because it is a simple random sample.
Yes, because it contains the same number of subjects as the population.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A movie theater considers upgrading to offer luxury seating. The manager randomly surveys 1,200 residents who live within 10 miles of the theater. What is the sample in this situation?
The 1,200 residents surveyed
1,500 randomly surveyed customers of the movie theater
All of the movie theater's customers
All residents who live within 10 miles of the theater
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Students in Mrs. Walsh’s math class wanted to know the favorite snacks of students in the school. How could they generate a random sample to survey?
Line up the students by height and choose the first 20 students.
Use the school roster and randomly choose 50 boys.
Obtain an alphabetized list of all the students in the school and select every seventh student.
Place all the names of the students in Mrs. Walsh's math class in a hat and randomly select 10 students.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Cherokee County Schools randomly selected 230 teachers to find out which technology resource its teachers feel is the most effective. What is the population in this situation?
230 Teachers
All Cherokee County teachers
All Cedar Bluff teachers
All Sand Rock and Spring Garden students
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Identify the Sample: The Huddle House 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 manager at Huddle House concluded that most customers do not order dessert. What is the SAMPLE in this scenario?
20 customers from Huddle House
All customers from Huddle House that evening
8 customers from Huddle House
The employees from Huddle House
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The population describes:
The group of people, objects or events being surveyed
a part of the group being surveyed
the whole world
the school
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