1.   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 winners of the school science fair
    B. asking the members of the after-school art club
    C. asking 4 students from each homeroom class
    D. asking your 3 best friends
    Hint

  2.   Suppose you want to determine the favorite food of students in your school. Which would not provide a random sample?
    A. surveying every fifth student to enter the school in the morning
    B. surveying customers at a nearby hamburger stand
    C. surveying three students from each homeroom class
    D. surveying every tenth student on the school roster
    Hint

  3.   Callie conducted a survey to determine students' favorite color. Of the students she surveyed, 18 out of 48 preferred blue. If there are 600 students in her school, how many would you expect to prefer blue?
    A. 225 B. 320
    C. 240 D. 200
    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. 6 B. 8
    C. 3 D. 0
    Hint



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