1.
A marketing company is conducting a survey to determine America's most popular professional football team. Where would they be most likely to obtain a random sample?
A.
Chicago's O'Hare Airport
B.
in front of the White House
C.
at a Cleveland Browns game
D.
by calling people from around the country on the telephone
Hint
2.
Suppose you are conducting a survey to determine whether the students in your school would prefer to go to the science museum or the art museum for the school field trip. Which method would produce a random sample?
A.
asking the members of the after-school art club
B.
asking 4 students from each homeroom class
C.
asking your 3 best friends
D.
asking the winners of the school science fair
Hint
3.
Suppose you want to determine the favorite food of students in your school. Which would
not
provide a random sample?
A.
surveying customers at a nearby hamburger stand
B.
surveying every tenth student on the school roster
C.
surveying every fifth student to enter the school in the morning
D.
surveying three students from each homeroom class
Hint
4.
Meng conducted a survey to determine the favorite flavor of ice cream in his hometown. Fifteen of the fifty people he surveyed liked strawberry best. How many of the 3,500 residents in the town would you expect to like strawberry best?
A.
750
B.
150
C.
560
D.
1,050
Hint
5.
Taylor and Isabel played a game with red, blue, white, and green balls. They had a bag with 10 balls. They took 4 samples of 4 balls at a time.
Sample 1: RRBB
Sample 2: BGRR
Sample 3: RWRB
Sample 4: RGBW
Find the best estimate of the number of blue balls in the bag.
A.
0
B.
8
C.
3
D.
6
Hint