Statistical Analysis with Software Application

Activity 1
Sampling Technique

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Note: Yellow pad Paper.

Test I: Population and Sample
Directions: Identify the population and sample on the given statements.
1. Mary surveyed her science class to identify the rock group most listened to by the students in her
grade.
2. Tony works for a political party. He stands at a busy street corner asking people whom they plan to
vote for in the upcoming election.
3. Karen noticed that most teenagers at the local library were reading murder mysteries. She suggested
to the student council at her school that they organize a school murder mysteries read-a-thon.
4. Angelo is the manager of a gym. He asks members who are at the gym on Wednesday night if he
should have a party for gym members.
5. Meena wants to know which band Ontario high school students think is the best. Meena’s friend,
Cindy, goes to a different school, so they each survey students at their own schools. Meena uses the
completed surveys from both schools to draw conclusions.

Test II: Sample Technique

Directions: Identify what kind of sample technique is being stated on each scenario.
1. Phone every 200th person who mails in a coupon as part of a money-back offer on the purchase of
mineral water.
2. Phone 400 numbers chosen randomly from all the residential phone numbers in a province.
3. Mail questionnaires to 200 men and 200 women chosen randomly from a list of men and a list of
women compiled from a market research company's mailing list.
4. Ask every third person walking in the hall.
5. Obtain all the class lists and generate random numbers to identify who should be in your sample.
6. Use random numbers to select one class from each grade, then use random numbers again to pick
names from each class.
7. The school newspaper wants to determine which presidential candidate in the upcoming student
council elections is supported by the majority of students.
8. A light bulb manufacturer wants to determine the lifespan of a certain type of light bulbs, in hours.
9. The Parent-Teacher Association wants to determine the average number of hours per week that
students spend on homework.
10. The principal randomly selects four classes and surveys each student in those classes.
11. William picks names out of a hat.
12. A hockey card collector opens a drawer of sorted cards and, after selecting a random starting point,
takes out every fifth card.
13. Your class submits solutions to a problem and your teacher divides the work into four piles by
achievement levels. She then randomly picks three examples from each.
14. The Ministry of Education randomly selects your school for testing, and 40 student names are
randomly selected from a student list.
15. A university polled 500 of its students, randomly selecting them proportional to the number of
students enrolled in each degree program.