Carlos wants to know the favorite sport of people at his school so he asks his baseball team.
A public library asked every 10th person who entered to name the type of book they were getting
A hospital wants to open a gym. They ask the night-shift ER staff when they would use the gym.
A company makes DVDs and randomly selects 25 from 1500 to test them to see if they work.
To see who has a computer at home the front office chooses 10 students randomly per grade to ask
The first 100 people at the park Thursday were asked if dogs should be off leashes in the park.
A senator wants to see how she's doing. She sends a survey to 1000 registered voters in her party
Ana wants to know the average student’s opinion of the tardy policy at her school. Which group of students should she survey in order to achieve the most accurate results?
Marcos wants to find out how many students at his school like to go to the movies. Which survey method is likely to produce a representative survey?
A restaurant wants to know if 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 restaurant concluded that most customers do not order dessert. Identify the sample.
After ordering some shoes on amazon.com, amazon asks consumers to take a survey. What sampling method is amazon using?
A sample should be
Which sample methods yield valid results?
A restaurant owner leaves comment cards on all of the tables and encourages customers to participate in a survey to assess their overall experience in his restaurant. Is this an example of a valid or invalid sample? Why?
You ask 125 randomly chosen students to name their favorite food. There are 1500 students in the school. Predict the number of students in the school whose favorite food is pizza.
The table shows the results of a survey of 75 seventh grade students at Coleman Middle School. Coleman Middle has a total of 250 seventh grade students.
Since going to an amusement park represents 32% of the students in the survey, then we can predict about 32% of all 7th graders would also select going to an amusement park.
Manny wants to order T-shirts for his high school, which consists of about 5,000 students. He takes a random sample to figure out how many sizes to order of each kind. If he randomly surveyed 100 students and 34 of them wanted a size small, how many small T-shirts should Manny order?
Data was collected from a random sample of 50 students regarding their favorite candidate running for student council president. If you were to randomly select 10 students, what number would you predict would select candidate A? Round to the nearest whole number!
