5.4.1: Exercises
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- In a study, the sample is chosen by separating all cars by size, and selecting 10 of each size grouping. What is the sampling method?
- In a study, the sample is chosen by writing everyone’s name on a playing card, shuffling the deck, then choosing the top 20 cards. What is the sampling method?
- A city government needs to know if its residents will support the construction of a new hospital. Which procedure would be the most appropriate for creating a sample of the city's population?
- Survey a random sample of doctors who live in the city.
- Survey a random sample of persons within each neighborhood of the city.
- Survey a random sample of people who live within a 5-mile radius of the proposed hospital site.
- Survey every 100th person who visits one of the other hospitals in the city.
- The math department wants to know students' opinions of how much math homework they should be doing. Which procedures would be the most appropriate for getting an unbiased sample?
- Survey a selection of students enrolled at the college.
- Survey enrolled students chosen from the first 1000 students listed alphabetically.
- Survey a selection of students enrolled in a math course.
- Survey a selection of students walking through the Science Building.
- A city government wants to conduct a survey among the city's homeless to discover their opinion about the recent ban on camping in certain public areas.
- They decide to do a random survey of people residing in homeless shelters. Does this seem like a good sample? Why or why not?
- They decide to survey all the homeless people contacted by the police. Does this seem like a good sample? Why or why not?
- They leave signs at several homeless encampments asking people to text their answers to some questions. Does this seem like a good sample? Why or why not?
- Design a better sampling process than any of those already given.
- A local supermarket is considering the addition of a coffee bar to its premises. They want to find out how much people might patronize the coffee bar. Design a survey for the supermarket to use.