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MULTIPLE CHOICE.    Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Determine which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) is most appropriate.

Ages of survey respondents.

1)

_______
A)
Ratio

B)

Ordinal

C)

Nominal

D)

Interval

Identify which of these types of sampling is used: random, stratified, systematic, cluster, convenience.

A sample consists of every 49th student from a group of 496 students.

2)

_______
A)
Systematic
B)
Stratified
C)
Cluster
D)
Random
E)
Convenience

A market researcher selects 500 drivers under 30 years of age and 500 drivers over 30 years of age.

3)

_______
A)
Random
B)
Convenience
C)
Stratified
D)
Cluster
E)
Systematic

An education researcher randomly selects 48 middle schools and interviews all the teachers at each school.

4)

_______
A)
Stratified
B)
Convenience
C)
Cluster
D)
Random
E)
Systematic

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5)

An airline company advertises that 100% of their flights are on time after checking 5 randomly selected flights and finding
that these 5 were on time. What is wrong with their claim?
A researcher obtains a sample of high school teachers in his school district by randomly selecting 10 high schools and
interviewing all the teachers at each of these 10 schools.    What    kind of sampling is being used here?    Will the resulting
sample    be a simple random sample of the population of teachers in the school district?    Explain your thinking.

7)
Explain the difference between a stratified random sample and cluster random sample.

1)
 A
2)
A
3)
C
4)
C
5)
The sample was too small.
6)
This cluster sampling.    The sample obtained will    not be    a simple random sample of all high school teachers in the
is district because different samples have different chances of being selected.
7)
First, a. The idea is that the elements in each strata are as much alike as possible so that the required sample size from
both each strata is reduced. Then the total sample size selected from all strata will hopefully be less than the required
sam sample size that would be needed if stratification were not used. In cluster sampling, the population is divided into
pling geographical subgroups. The hope is that each subgroup is a mirror image of the population as a whole. Then a few
tech of the clusters are randomly selected and all sampling of individual items is taken from only the selected clusters.
niqu The objective is to reduce the cost of sampling by reducing the physical area that must be covered in the sample.
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