Tugas 8 Bistat:

1. Mrs. Nancy is the Vice President for a State University. She is responsible for the capital
campaign to raise money for the new student services building. She plans to target alumni and
acquires her sampling frame from the State University Office of Alumni Relations. She intends to
contact these individuals regarding possible donations. She randomly selects the seventh name as a
starting point and then selects every 100th subsequent name (107, 207, 307, etc.). Her sample is a
_________.
a) simple random sample
b) stratified sample
c) systematic sample
d) convenience sample
e) cluster sample

2. Mr. Brown is the Vice President a Private University. He is responsible for the capital campaign
to raise money for the new student services building. He plans to target alumni and acquires her
sampling frame from the Private University Office of Alumni Relations. He intends to contact these
individuals regarding possible donations. He chooses his sample by selecting six-digit numbers (1 to
150,000) from a random number table. His sample is a _________.
a) simple random sample
b) stratified sample
c) systematic sample
d) convenience sample
e) cluster sample

3. Grace, Chief Financial Officer of a company, suspects irregularities in the payroll system. She
knows that 2,500 payroll vouchers have been issued since January 1, 2018, and her staff doesn't have
time to inspect each voucher. So, she randomly selects 55 as a starting point and orders her staff to
inspect the 53rd voucher and each voucher at an increment of 100 (55, 155, 255, etc.). Her sample is
a ___________.
a) stratified sample
b) simple random sample
c) convenience sample
d) cluster sample
e) systematic sample
4. Financial analyst Paul needs a sample of 50 securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The current issue of the Wall Street Journal has an alphabetical list of the 3,535 securities traded on
the previous business day. Paul uses a table of random numbers to select 50 numbers between 1 and
3,535. His sample is a ____________.
a) quota sample
b) simple random sample
c) systematic sample
d) stratified sample
e) cluster sample

5. Financial analyst Larry Potts needs a sample of 100 securities listed on either the New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE) or the American Stock Exchange (AMEX). According to the Wall Street Journal's
"Stock Market Data Bank," 2,531 NYSE securities and 746 AMEX securities were traded on the
previous business day. Larry directs his staff to randomly select 77 NYSE and 23 AMEX securities.
His sample is a ____________.
a) disproportionate systematic sample
b) disproportionate stratified sample
c) proportionate stratified sample
d) proportionate systematic sample
e) proportionate cluster sampling

6. Robert, VP of Operations 0f an International Bank, is evaluating the service level provided to

walk-in customers. Accordingly, he plans a sample of waiting times for walk-in customers. Robert
instructs his staff to record the waiting times for the first 50 walk-in customers arriving after the noon
hour. Albert's sample is a ________.
a) simple random sample
b) systematic sample
c) convenience sample
d) stratified sample
e) cluster sample
7. A carload of steel rods has arrived at a Construction Company. The car contains 1,000 bundles of
50 rods of various sizes. Agnes, Manager of Quality Assurance, directs the receiving crew to deliver
the 63rd and 458th bundles to his crew for 100% inspection. Agnes randomly selected 63 and 458
from a table of random numbers. Agnes’s sample of 100 rods is a _____________.
a) cluster sample
b) simple random sample
c) quota sample
d) systematic sample
e) stratified sample

8. Pedro, Director of Human Resources, is exploring employee absenteeism at a manufacture. Pedro

knows that absenteeism varies significantly between departments. For example, workers in the wood
shop are absent more than those in the tuning department and the size of the departments ranges from
40 to 120 workers. He orders a random sample of 10% of the workers from each of the six
departments. Pedro's sample is a ________________.
a) proportionate systematic sample
b) proportionate stratified sample
c) disproportionate systematic sample
d) disproportionate stratified sample
e) proportionate cluster sample

9. Tony, Director of Marketing Research, needs a sample of households to participate in the testing
of a new toothpaste package. She chooses thirty-six of her closest friends. Tony's sample is a
_____________.
a) cluster sample
b) convenience sample
c) quota sample
d) systematic sample
e) random sample

10. According to the central limit theorem, if a sample of size 100 is drawn from a population with a
mean of 80, the mean of all sample means would equal _______.
a) 0.80
b) 8
c) 80
d) 100
e) 120
11. According to the central limit theorem, if a sample of size 56 is drawn from a population with a
mean of 16, the mean of all sample means would equal _______.
a) 56
b) 16
c) 7.5
d) 44.0
e) 196

12. According to the central limit theorem, if a sample of size 56 is drawn from a population with a
standard deviation of 14, the standard deviation of the distribution of the sample means would equal
_______.
a) 14
b) 1.87
c) 3.5
d) 0.25
e) 3.74

13. According to the central limit theorem, if a sample of size 100 is drawn from a population with a
standard deviation of 80, the standard deviation of sample means would equal _______.
a) 0.80
b) 8
c) 80
d) 800
e) 0.080

14. Decreasing the sample size causes the sampling distribution of x̄ to ________.
a) shift to the right
b) shift to the left
c) have more dispersion
d) have less dispersion
e) stay unchanged

15. According to the central limit theorem, for samples of size 64 drawn from a population with μ =
800 and σ= 56, the mean of the sampling distribution of sample means would equal _______.
a) 7
b) 8
c) 100
d) 800
e) 80
16. According to the central limit theorem, for samples of size 64 drawn from a population with μ =
800 and σ = 56, the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means would equal
_______.
a) 7
b) 8
c) 100
d) 800
e) 80

17. According to the central limit theorem, for samples of size 169 drawn from a population with μ =
1,014 and σ = 65, the mean of the sampling distribution of sample means would equal _______.
a) 1,014
b) 65
c) 5
d) 6
e) 3

18. Suppose the population of all public Universities shows the annual parking fee per student is
normally distributed with a mean of $110 with a standard deviation of $18. If a random sample of size
49 is drawn from the population, the probability of drawing a sample with a mean of more than $115
is closest to _______.
a) 0.9738
b) 0.4738
c) 0.0262
d) 0.6103
e) 0.1103

19. Suppose the population of all public Universities shows the annual parking fee per student is
normally distributed with a mean of $110 with a standard deviation of $18. If a random sample of size
49 is drawn from the population, the probability of drawing a sample with a mean of less than $92 is
closest to _______.
a) 0.3400
b) 0.1600
c) 0.0000
d) 1.0000
e) 0.7000
20. Suppose the population of all public Universities shows the annual parking fee per student is
normally distributed with a mean of $110 with a standard deviation of $18. If a random sample of size
49 is drawn from the population, the probability of drawing a sample with a sample mean between
$100 and $115 is closest to _______.
a) 0.9738
b) 0.4738
c) 0.0262
d) 0.6103
e) 0.1103

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