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I. For the following statement, determine the type of sampling used.

1. A woman in the airport is handing out questionnaires to travelers


asking them to evaluate the airport’s service. She does not ask
travelers who are hurrying through the airport with their hands full of
luggage, but instead asks all travelers who are sitting near gates and
not taking naps while they wait.
2. A teacher wants to know if her students are doing homework, so she
randomly selects rows two and five and then calls on all students in
row two and all students in row five to present the solutions to
homework problems to the class.
3. The marketing manager for an electronics chain store wants
information about the ages of its customers. Over the next two weeks,
at each store location, 100 randomly selected customers are given
questionnaires to fill out asking for information about age, as well as
about other variables of interest.
4. The librarian at a public library wants to determine what proportion of
the library users are children. The librarian has a tally sheet on which
she marks whether books are checked out by an adult or a child. She
records this data for every fourth patron who checks out books.
5. A political party wants to know the reaction of voters to a debate
between the candidates. The day after the debate, the party’s polling
staff calls 1,200 randomly selected phone numbers. If a registered
voter answers the phone or is available to come to the phone, that
registered voter is asked whom he or she intends to vote for and
whether the debate changed his or her opinion of the candidates.
6. A teacher puts students' names in a hat and chooses without looking to
get a sample of [3] students.
7. A large company surveys 100 employees by taking random samples of
10 managers and 90 non-managerial employees.
8. An airline company wants to survey its customers one day, so they
randomly select 5 flights that day and survey every passenger on those
flights.
9. A truck manufacturer selects 3 trucks at random from each of 6 models
for safety testing.
10. A professor asks the first 5 students who arrive to class to participate in
a research study about young adult sleep patterns.
11. A large bakery mass produces cakes on an assembly line. Each shift, a
quality control expert randomly selects one of the first ten finished
cakes, and every tenth cake thereafter. Employees weigh those cakes
and give the cakes a detailed visual check.
12. A restaurant leaves comment cards on all of its tables to learn about
customer satisfaction. Each comment card is a brief survey that
customers can fill out if they choose to.
13. A group of test subjects is divided into twelve groups; then four of the
groups are chosen at random.
14. A market researcher polls every tenth person who walks into a store.
15. The first 50 people who walk into a sporting event are polled on their
television preferences.
16. A computer generates 100 random numbers, and 100 people whose
names correspond with the numbers on the list are chosen.
17. Suppose that the second researcher conducted his survey by choosing
40 patients he knew. The patients he knew recruit additional
participants to answer the survey.
18. Take a simple random sample from each group. One way is by
assigning a number to each patient and using a random number
generator to randomly select patients.
19. The instructor takes her sample by gathering data on five randomly
selected students from each Lake Tahoe Community College math
class. The type of sampling she used is.
20. A study was done to determine the age, number of times per week, and
the duration (amount of time) of residents using a local park in San
Jose. The first house in the neighborhood around the park was
selected randomly and then every eighth house in the neighborhood
around the park was interviewed. The sampling method was:

II.
A. Give the percentage of each group.
GROUP Frequency Percentage

A 70

B 66

C 47

D 84

Total
B. Table contains the total number of deaths worldwide as a result of
earthquakes from 2000 to 2012. Use Table to answer the following
questions.

Year Total Number of Deaths

2000 231

2001 21,357

2002 11,685

2003 33,819

2004 228,802

2005 88,003

2006 6,605

2007 712

2008 88,011

2009 1,790 a.
b.
2010 320,120 c.
d.
2011 21,953 e.
f.
2012 768 g.
h.
Total 823,856 i.
j.
k.
l.

a. What percent of deaths occurred during 2004?


b. What percent of deaths occurred before 2011?
c. What is the percent of deaths that occurred in 2003?
d. What kind of data is the number of deaths?

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