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A clothing store manager wants to make sure the paint color on the walls appeals to customers. Determine whether each sampling method produces a representative sample. Survey 35 randomly selected customers at the clothing store each day for 7 days.

• Representative

• Not Representative

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A clothing store manager wants to make sure the paint color on the walls appeals to customers. Determine whether each sampling method produces a representative sample. Survey 150 people eating at the food court in the mall.

• Representative

• Not Representative

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A clothing store manager wants to make sure the paint color on the walls appeals to customers. Determine whether each sampling method produces a representative sample. Survey every customer at the clothing store on Sunday who is under the age of 30.

• Representative

• Not Representative

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A county library manager wants to find out what types of activities residents in the county want at the library. Which sample is the most representative of the population of interest?

• every 30th person on a list of county residents

• every 30th person who enters a local restaurant

• every child who enters the county library

• every student who enters the local high school

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

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An employee of a company wants to determine what method of transportation most employees use to get to work. Which sample is the most representative of the population of interest?

• 20 randomly selected employees in the marketing department

• 50 randomly selected employees at the company

• all the first-year employees at the company

• the first 25 employees to get to work Monday morning

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A teacher wants to know if students at Lakers High would rather have hot dogs or hamburgers at the school cookout. Which group of people should the teacher survey to provide the most accurate sample?

• 45 students randomly selected from a list of all students in the school

• all the students in the environmental club

• the first 15 students the teacher sees pass the library in the hallway

• the teacher’s 10 favorite students in 6th grade

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A company wants to know the most popular brand of water bought by customers that are 20 to 25 years old in Texas. Which sampling method produces an unbiased, representative sample of the population?

• Randomly survey 250 retired doctors in Texas.

• Survey every 3rd customer in the 20- to 25-year-old age range that buys water at a randomly selected grocery store in Texas.

• Survey the first 250 customers at a randomly selected grocery store in Maine.

• Survey the first 250 people in the 20- to 25-year-old age range the statistician from the company comes across at a fitness event in North Carolina.

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A statistics student samples a group of people to determine the probability that a student at Lakeview High owns a car. Which group of people should the student survey to provide the most accurate sample?

• a fourth of the students in each grade at Lakeview High

• all the students in the freshman class at Lakeview High

• the members of the JV basketball team

• the students at the statistics student’s lunch table

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A store wants to know if a new flavor of chips will appeal to young people. Which sample best represents the population of interest?

• every female under the age of 55

• every fifth person under 25 who comes into the store

• every parent of a toddler

• everybody who has bought chips in the last month

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

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A movie theater manager considers extending the hours the theater is open each day. If the manager wants to conduct a survey to determine if customers would prefer longer hours, which survey method produces the most representative sample?

• Survey every customer who purchases a movie ticket in the afternoon.

• Survey every customer who buys a movie ticket to the last movie showing.

• Survey every customer who is between the ages of 13 and 19 years old.

• Survey every 15th customer who purchases a movie ticket throughout the day.

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