Revision - (Unit 6) - Collecting data

40 marks from 40 questions

Question 1

Which of these characteristics would you see in a good questionnaire?

a. Detailed questions with lots of explanation.

b. Lots of questions with phrases for answers.
c. A choice of answers that do not overlap.
d. Answers which use the words ‘sometimes’ and ‘normally’.

Question 2

Which of these statements are not correct for a good questionnaire?

Select all correct answers.

a. Use short questions in simple language.

b. Always include name, address and date of birth.
c. Use questions that have a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answer.
d. Ask leading questions such as ‘do you agree...’.

Question 3

True or false?

A record of the number of brown-eyed students in a class is categorical data.  a. True  b. False

Question 4

A record of changing air temperature is:  a. categorical data  b. discrete data  c. continuous data
Question 5

When someone enters the type of accomodation they live in on a census form, this is an example of:

 a. categorical data  b. discrete data  c. continuous data

Question 6

The number of times you catch the bus each week is:  a. categorical data  b. discrete data

 c. continuous data

Question 7

Which of these is a good sample size?

a. 1%
b. 5%
c. 6%
d. 10%

Question 8

A sample is taken to conduct a survey of a group of people.

Which of these statements is correct?

a. Everyone in the group completes the survey.

b. More than half of the group complete the survey.

c. Some of the group complete the survey.

Question 9

An investigation is conducted into the use of public transport by people who live in a city.

What is the population in this investigation?

a. The people who use public transport.

b. The people who live in the city.

c. The people who live in the whole country.

Question 10

How much homework do you get each week?

none 1–2 hours 3–4 hours more than 4 hours too much

Which of these answers should not be included?

a. none
b. 1–2 hours
c. 3–4 hours
d. more than 4 hours
e. too much

Question 11

You want to collect data about how often people use social media.

Which is the best place to collect the data?

a. At a primary school.
b. In a shopping centre.
c. At a park.
Question 12

A survey is to be done to find out who regularly plays football.

Who should be asked?

a. Just boys
b. Just girls
c. Equal numbers of boys and girls

Question 13

A record of 30 students' hair colour is:  a. categorical data  b. discrete data  c. continuous data

Question 14

The number of times you shop each week is:  a. categorical data  b. discrete data  c. continuous data

Question 15

A record of a car's velocity over a period of time is:  a. categorical data  b. discrete data  c. continuous data

Question 16

The number of students in a class would be classified as:

a. categorical data
b. discrete data
c. continuous data
Question 17

Complete this working out to find a 10% sample of 600.

10% of
= × 600
600 
=  60

Question 18

A school has 1500 learners. To collect data from the learners, should you ask the whole population or
collect a sample?

a. Ask the whole population.

b. Collect a sample.

Question 19

There are 12 bags of apples in a box. You want to record the number of apples in each bag. Should you
take a sample of the bags or count all the bags?

a. Take a sample.
b. Count all the bags.

Question 20

There are 12 000 houses in a town. A survey is to be conducted.

Should every house be asked, or should a sample be taken?

a. Take a sample.
b. Ask every house.
Question 21

 This question is in a lifestyle questionnaire.

How often do you visit the cinema?

never often

Why is this not a suitable question?

Select all correct statements.

a. There are only two options.

b. The answers are too vague.
c. There is no time period given in the question.
d. They may not like the cinema.

Question 22

In a survey there is the following question.

How many times did you go on holiday last year?

0 times 1–3 times 3–6 times 6 times or more

What is wrong with the responses to this question?

a. The numbers are too low.

b. There are too few choices.
c. There are too many choices.
d. The responses overlap.
Question 23

This question is in a lifestyle questionnaire.

Do you agree that the theatre is better than the cinema?

yes no not sure

Why is this not a suitable question?

a. The question is leading.

b. The question is too long.
c. The question cannot be answered.

Question 24

How many people visit a particular leisure centre in a particular city?

Select the data set that could be used to answer the question above.

a. The number of visitors to leisure centres in the city.

b. The number of leisure centres in all cities.
c. A survey of sports played by people in the city centre.
d. A record of how many people use the leisure centre each day.

Question 25

The table shows sports preferences for a class.

Sport Tally  Frequency 

Basketball     8

Tennis   15

Cricket 5

Select all the answers that reflect this data.

 a. This is discrete numerical data.  b. The number of students in the class is 28.

 c. This is categorical data.  d. Five students prefer cricket.

Question 26

A book store collects data by analysing sales records.

What type of data is this?

a. Continuous data
b. Discrete data

Question 27

You want to compare the results from a survey in your school by comparing boys' answers to girls'
answers.

There are 420 boys in the school and 380 girls.

Which of these statements is true?

a. You should ask the same number of boys and girls.

b. Every student must complete the survey.
c. You should ask 42 boys and 38 girls.

Question 28

A food delivery company wants to investigate whether customers are satisfied with their service.

Which of these methods could they use to collect data?

 Select all the correct answers.

a. Interview employees of the company.

b. Interview every customer.

c. Send a survey by email to a sample of customers.

Question 29

A bread factory tests the quality of its products every day.

Which of these would not be a good method for collecting the data?

Select all the correct answers.

a. Test all the products for the first hour of the day.

b. Test one product each hour.

c. Test a selection of products each day.

d. Test the first product they make each day.

Question 30

A survey is to be conducted about the height of children under 10 years of age. The heights will be
rounded to the nearest whole number.

Which units should be used for the results?

a. Millimetres
b. Centimetres
c. Metres
d. Kilometres

Question 31

A healthy eating study wants to find out how much fruit people eat.

Which of these data sets is suitable for this study?

Select all suitable data sets.

a. Data collected daily on fruit sales in a supermarket over a week.

b. Data collected outside a supermarket on buying habits.
c. Data collected in an online survey about dieting.
d. Data researched in newspapers about healthy eating.
Question 32

People leaving a swimming pool at the weekend are asked if they like swimming.

What is the main reason that this data won’t be fair?

a. The people may not want to answer the question.

b. They have just been swimming so will probably answer yes.
c. The people will all be adults.
d. It is the weekend.

Question 33

A survey is carried out about sleep patterns.

One of the questions is ‘What time do you normally wake up?’

Which of these response sections would be suitable?

a. before 7 am 7 am–8 am after 8 am

b.time: ................

c. morning afternoon

Question 34

This question is in a lifestyle questionnaire.

How long do you watch television for each day?

1–2 hours 2–3 hours over 3 hours

What is wrong with this question?

Select all correct answers.

a. There is no answer box for less than 1 hour.

b. The question assumes you watch television every day.
c. The question should record the day.
d. The responses overlap.
Question 35

This question is in a lifestyle questionnaire.

Do you exercise every day?

yes sometimes no

What is wrong with this question?

a. There should be more options.

b. It should ask how long people exercise for.
c. It should only have ‘Yes’ and ‘No’.

Question 36

A toy shop wants to discover which toy people prefer.

Which of these surveys would produce a fair result?

a. Ask boys who come into the shop.

b. Ask parents of the children in the shop.
c. Ask ten families in the shop.
d. Ask people who work in the shop.

Question 37

Maryam goes to a high school where both girls and boys attend. She conducted a survey on whether
the canteen should stock apples. Maryam sampled her friends: Roula, Linh, Anong and Farah.

Select all the statements that show why Maryam’s sample is biased.

a. She only asked her friends, who may have similar tastes.

 
b. She only asked girls. To get an unbiased sample, she should have asked boys as well.
 
c. She only asked four students – the sample is too small.
 
d. She did not ask the canteen for permission.
Question 38

To find the average height of learners in a year at school, you decided to use the basketball players in
that year as your sample.

Your sample is biased because:

a. There are only a few basketball players

 
b. Basketball players are usually taller than average
 
c. Basketball players are not part of the population

Question 39

‘9 out of 10 dentists prefer to use our toothbrush.’

To know whether to trust this statement, you would need to know:

a. who conducted the survey

b. how the sample was selected
c. how the question was phrased
d. how many dentists were surveyed
e. all of the above
 

Question 40

Sachin wants to test the hypothesis: Football is more popular with boys than with girls.

He will take a sample of boys and girls from his year at school. In the whole school, there are the same
number of boys and girls.

Sachin’s sample should be made up of:

a. 25 boys and 25 girls.

b. the 15 boys and 10 girls in his class.
c. 10 boys and 10 girls.