Unit 6-7

31 marks from 31 questions

Question 1 Question 2

What would you do if you need to make an event Which of these methods can be used to carry out a
happen so you can record your observations? survey?

a. Conduct a survey Select all correct answers.

b. Conduct an experiment
a. Interview people
c. Carry out an interview
b. Record your observations
d. Create a questionnaire
c. Create a questionnaire
d. Conduct an experiment

Question 3 Question 4

Nasima collects data to find out about the benefits Marek wants to find out how much time learners in
of living near the centre of her town. his school spend on their homework.

How many people should Nasima ask? How could he take a sample?

a. One person who lives near her a. Ask all learners in his class

b. Her family and friends b. Ask two learners in each class

c. Twenty people who live in the town c. Ask all the learners in his school

d. Everyone who lives in her town

Question 5 Question 6

Alana is going to visit the cinema with 10 of her

Marek records data about how much time learners friends.
in his school spend on homework.
She wants to collect data to decide which film they
What type of data does he collect? should see.

a. Categorical How should she collect her data?

b. Discrete a. Ask all of her friends

c. Continuous b. Ask one of her friends

c. Ask half of her friends

Question 7 Question 8

Data is collected about the number of people who

Data is collected on the amount of time a phone is fly to a particular airport in one year.
on standby before it needs recharging.
The records of all the passengers who travel to the
This is done by finding the times for five different airport are used for that year.
phones.
Is this a population or a sample of the data?
Is this the population or a sample of the data?
a. Population
a. Population
b. Sample
b. Sample

Question 9 Question 10

Data is collected about the amount of homework What is a conjecture?

completed by learners in a school.
a. A conclusion that has been proved
Which of these factors may affect the data
collection? b. A topic for discussion

Select all correct answers. c. An opinion that is suspected to be true

a. The age of the learner

b. The time of day the learner was asked

c. The lesson the learner was in

d. The number of subjects the learner studies

Question 11 Question 12

A school has 1500 learners. To collect data from Which method should be used to collect data about
the learners, should you ask the whole population the colour of cars in a car park?
or collect a sample?
a. Record observations
a. Ask the whole population. b. Conduct a survey
b. Collect a sample. c. Complete a questionnaire
d. Carry out an experiment
Question 13 Question 14

Which method should you use to collect data about Which method should be used to record the number
the favourite subject of learners in your school? of times a 4 is rolled on a normal dice?

a. Conduct an experiment a. Conduct an experiment

b. Complete a questionnaire b. Complete a questionnaire
c. Record your observations c. Record your observations

Question 15 Question 16

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.
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?

b. Count all the bags.

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

Question 17 Question 18

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
Sofia plans to collect data to find out about the
benefits of living near a supermarket in her town.
What is the population for her survey?
a. Everyone who goes to a supermarket
b. Everyone who lives in her town

b. Basketball players are usually taller c. Everyone who lives within one kilometre of her
than average home

c. Basketball players are not part of

the population
Question 19 Question 20

Sofia plans to collect data to find out about the
benefits of living near a supermarket in her town.
She decides to ask a sample of people.
Which of these is a suitable sample?
a. 50 people who live in her town
b. 5 people who go to a particular supermarket
Which of these situations describes the population
of a survey on cars that travel past a house during a
day?
a. All the cars that drive past a house in one day
b. Every fifth car that drives past a house in one day
c. The cars that drive past a house during one hour
of a day

c. Someone who lives in each house within 100 m d. All the blue cars that drive past a house in one
of a supermarket day

Question 21 Question 22

Select the data that cannot be collected using an Select the data that cannot be collected using an
interview. experiment.

a. The number of times a red card is taken from a. The time it takes someone to complete ten
a pack of cards. jumps.
b. The number of brothers and sisters someone b. The number of arithmetic questions that can
has. be completed in one minute.
c. The number of days that someone goes c. The favourite sport of a group of students.
swimming in a month.

Question 23 Question 24

Salman wants to find out if baseball should be Mundher wants to find out if people in his town go
introduced as a new sport in his school. to the cinema regularly.

Which method could he use to collect the data? Which of these methods could he use?

Select all appropriate methods. a. Ask four of his friends in the town if they go
to the cinema.
a. Interview a sample of learners.
b. Conduct a survey of people who live in his
b. Complete an experiment. street.
c. Observe learners at break time. c. Send a questionnaire in the post to every
d. Create a questionnaire for learners to address in the town.
complete. d. Ask people in the centre of the town if they go
to the cinema regularly.
Question 25 Question 26

Which method should you use to collect data about Ambia wants to find out how reliable buses are in
the types of insects found on the banks of a river? her town.

a. Conduct an experiment. Which of these methods could she use to collect her

b. Observe the number of different insects in a data?

set area.
a. Count the number of buses that go past her
c. Count the insects on the whole river bank. house each day.
d. Measure the length of insects on the river
bank. b. Record the number of learners who travel by bus
to her school.

c. Count the number of people who travel on each

bus between 8 am and 9 am each day.

d. Record the time that each bus arrives at the same

bus stop for one day.

Question 27 Question 28

A delivery company wants to begin delivering food Maryam goes to a high school where both girls and
from restaurants. boys attend. She conducted a survey on whether
the canteen should stock apples. Maryam sampled
They survey their customers. her friends: Roula, Linh, Anong and Farah.

Select all of the questions that they should include Select all the statements that show why Maryam’s
in the survey. sample is biased.

a. How often do you eat food in a restaurant?

a. She only asked her friends, who may have
similar tastes.
b. Would you order food from a restaurant to eat
at home?
b. She only asked girls. To get an unbiased
c. How far would you travel to visit a restaurant? sample, she should have asked boys as well.

d. Which restaurants would you like to order food

c. She only asked four students – the sample is
from?
too small.

d. She did not ask the canteen for permission.

Question 29 Question 30

Data is collected from cameras monitoring car Data was collected from cameras monitoring car
traffic in a city. traffic in a city.

Which of these methods could be used to take a Data was collected from the first 10 cars on one
sample of this data? road on a particular day.

a. Look at the first 10 cars on one road
b. Look at every car on every road
c. Look at every 20th car on each road
What is the disadvantage of this method of
sampling?
a. All the cars are the same size.
b. There was not enough data collected.

c. Data was collected throughout the day.

Question 31

Adeena makes silk flowers for six hours in one day. The number of minutes it takes her to make some
flowers is recorded in a sample.

Why would recording the time she takes to make the last ten flowers not be the best method of taking a
sample?

a. She might be tired at the end of the day.

b. She has run out of materials to make the flowers.

c. The time will be different for each flower.