MCQ on sampling methods.

1)    Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting 5 girls and 7 boys.  This type of sampling is called?

a)    Stratified

b)    Systematic

c)     Simple

d)    Cluster

2)    Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting every third person on her class list.  Which type of sampling method is this?

a)    Simple

b)    Systematic

c)     Stratified

d)    Cluster

3)    Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting all students sitting at group 1 and group 5 in her classroom.  This sampling technique is called?

a)    Simple

b)    Stratified

c)     Systematic

d)    Cluster

4)    Mrs. Trahan samples her class by picking 10 numbers from her hat and each number is assigned to a student. This is ______________ random sampling.

a)    Systematic

b)    Simple

c)     Stratified

d)    Cluster

5)    Farmer Joe separates his apple tree farm into 10 regions.  He counts the number of apples produced in just one of the regions and uses that estimate to predict the number of apples produced on the whole farm.  This is _______ sampling.

a)    Simple

b)    Cluster

c)     Stratified

d)    Systematic

6)    Farmer Joe's apple tree farm is set up in 100 rows.  He counts the number of apples produced on every 10th row to estimate the number apples produced on the whole farm.  This is _____________ sampling.  

a)    Simple

b)    Stratified

c)     Cluster

d)    Systematic

7)    Farmer Joe randomly picks 100 trees using a random number generator to estimate the number of apples produced by his apple trees.  This is ______________ sampling.

a)    Simple

b)    Stratified

c)     Cluster

d)    Systematic

8)    Farmer Joe separates his farm into 10 regions.  He then randomly selected 5 trees from each region to estimate the number of apples produced on his apple tree farm.  This is _____________ sampling.  

a)    Cluster

b)    Systematic

c)     Stratified

d)    Simple

9)    In order to use samples to estimate something from the population, the sample should be _________________ the population.

a)    exactly the same as

b)    nothing like

c)     representative of

d)    larger than

10) To find out what the preferred ice cream flavor is, wait outside an ice cream parlor and ask every 4th person leaving the store to name his or her favorite flavor until you get 25 responses is an example of...

a)    Convenience Sample

b)    Simple Random Sample

c)     Stratified Random Sample

d)    Systematic Sample

11) If every individual in a population has the same chance of being included in a sample, the sample is a(n) _________ sample.

a)    Biased Sample

b)    Convenience Sample

c)     Random Sample

d)    Stratified Sample

12) To study the amount of time students spend doing homework each day, use a random number generator to select 25 students from the student enrollment database to survey.

a)    Convenience Sample

b)    Simple Random Sample

c)     Stratified Random Sample

d)    Interval Sample

13) To study the amount of time students spend doing homework each day, use a random number generator to select 25 freshmen, 25 sophomores, 25 juniors, and 25 seniors to survey.

a)    Convenience Sample

b)    Simple Random Sample

c)     Stratified Random Sample

d)    Interval Sample

14) To determine the most popular type of cake amount all the students at your school, ask your entire math class. 

a)    Cluster Sample

b)    Simple Random Sample

c)     Stratified Random Sample

d)    Interval Sample

15) A student wants to determine the favorite professional sport of students in her high school.  Which of the following samples is most likely to giver her a representative sample?

a)    A random Sample of the students in the art honor society

b)    A random sample of students on the basketball team

c)     A random sample of students on the official school enrollment roster

d)    A random sample of students in the library during lunch

16) The school librarian wants to determine how many students use the library on a regular basis.  What type of sampling method would she use if she chose to select every 3rd student who enters the library on Tuesday?

a)    Convenience Sample only

b)    Simple Random Sample

c)     Stratified Random Sample

d)    Systematic Sample

17) The school librarian wants to determine how many students use the library on a regular basis.  What type of sampling method would she use if she chose to use a random number generator to randomly select 50 students from the school's attendance roster?

a)    Convenience Sample

b)    Simple Random Sample

c)     Stratified Random Sample

d)    Interval Sample

18) The school librarian wants to determine how many students use the library on a regular basis.  What type of sampling method would she use if she chose to randomly select 20 students in the cafeteria during each of the three lunch periods on Monday?

a)    Convenience Sample

b)    Simple Random Sample

c)     Stratified Random Sample

d)    Interval Sample

19) True or False: all samples lead to a good prediction about an entire population.

a)    True

b)    False

20) Mrs. Boyd wants to find the average height of all her students in her classes. She decides to use the first 5 people who walk in the door. Is this a good representative sample?

a)    Yes

b)    No

21) Units of the population are ordered in some fashion.  Usually, every k-th unit is chosen.
a.proportional

b)    probable

c)     stratified

d)    systematic

22) Identify the sampling design: The LFCC registrar wants to investigate attitudes of their graduates.  The registrar randomly selects 100 names from each of the four past graduating classes.

a)    cluster

b)    volunteer

c)     stratified

d)    simple random

23) Identify the sampling design: Mr. Rhoades puts all of his students' names in a hat and randomly selects one without looking.

a)    cluster

b)    volunteer

c)    systematic

d)    simple random

24) Identify the sampling design: Student government randomly samples 25 students of each of the four classes.

a)    stratified

b)    volunteer

c)    systematic

d)    simple random

25) Identify the sampling design: SCPS wants to survey its employees.  They pick 4 schools from the county and survey every single employee in each of the 4 buildings.

a)    cluster

b)    volunteer

c)    systematic

d)    simple random

26) His sample is selected by dividing the population into subgroups and then taking a fixed number of units from each group using the simple random sample.

a)    stratified

b)    cluster

c)    judgment

d)    experimental

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