Sampling and Making Inferences Quiz
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- Q1Anita is in charge of ordering food for the snack bar at the upcoming elementary school track meet. In order to make as much money as possible, she should -make a survey of what students are most likely to buyorder what she thinks people will buyorder something of everythingorder what she likes45s
- Q2Diane decides to find out what snack food students like at her elementary school. What should she do to get the most accurate information.take a survey among studentstake a survey among the girls in her classask her friendsfind out what was ordered last year45s
- Q3Jung wanted to find out which band was most popular among the high school students. Where should be conduct his survey to get the most unbiased survey?at a school dance where band A is playingat the record store where a member of band B is giving autographsat the next school board meetingin the school cafeteria45s
- Q4Felicia wanted to find out which hip hop video was most popular among the junior high school students. Where should she conduct her survey to get the most unbiased survey?in her physical education class where her classmates all like jazzin the band hall where hip-hop music is not allowedat a school danceat a teachers meeting45s
- Q5Earl wanted to find out which sport was most popular among high school students. Where should he conduct his survey to get the most unbiased survey?at physical education sign-upsat a game for sport Aat a chess club meetingat the tryouts for sport B45s
- Q6A track coach wanted to know how fast an average 7th grader girl at her school could run a 400-meter dash. There are 55 seventh graders at her school. How could the track coach find a reasonable estimate for the average 400-meter time?by asking one of the 7th grade girls how fast she can runby timing twenty 7th grade girls and averaging their timesby timing one 7th grade girl and using that timeby timing two 7th grade girls and averaging their times45s
- Q7Jared checked the school soda vending machine sales each hour between 8am and 3pm. The 11am count each day averaged about 20 sodas. Jared then predicted about 20 sodas will be sold each hour of the day. What is wrong with this prediction?it might start rainingstudents may not have any more moneymore sodas are usually sold during lunchtimestudents might buy pizza45s
- Q8To show that M&M candy bags have more of a certain color than other colors you could:sort several bags and calculate percentagestell people to buy more M&M'ssurvey your friends for their favorite M&M colorcount only the bag you bought45s
- Q9Peter wants to know the type of music the students at his school prefer for the homecoming dance. Which method of survey would best represent the entire student body?randomly survey the teachersrandomly survey 50 sophomoresrandomly survey 2 students from each homeroomsurvey the student council officers of each class45s
- Q10A survey found that 6 out of 7 students own a pet. If there are 320 students in a school, what is a reasonable prediction for the number of students who own a pet? (Hint: write a proportion)80 students24 students240 students8 students45s