A statistics teacher wants to know how her students feel about an introductory statistics course. She decides to administer a survey to a random sample of students at the school. She has several sampling plans to choose from.    Question 9 options: 1. Stratified sampling. 2. Cluster sampling. 3. Simple Random sampling 4. Systematic sampling 5. Convenience sampling.   Each student has a nine-digit student number. Randomly choose 60 nine-digit numbers.   Using the class roster, select every fifth student from the list.   Each class rank is approximately the same size. Randomly select two of the class ranks and then randomly select five students from the selected rank (freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors).   Randomly selects three first period courses and survey all the students within those courses.

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Our local movie theater polls its customers about their favorite candy to eat during the movie.  Name each sampling method described. a.  Employees ask every 45th customer that purchases a movie ticket b.  An employee divides the theater into sections: left, right, front, back.  He/she randomly chooses a section and polls every customer within that section

Determine the type of sampling used in the following scenario. A student wants to know the average height of the class. The student asks 3 male classmates and 3 female classmates for their height. simple random sampling stratified sampling cluster sampling systematic sampling convenience sampling

You want to gather some data about students at a local high school. Match the name of the sampling method with the description of corresponding situation. Situations Selecting five classroom numbers at random then surveying all the students in each of these five rooms Surveying every 3rd driver coming through a tollbooth Pulling 50 names from a hat Sampling Method a. Cluster b. Simple Random c. Systematic d. Convenience e. Stratified

If you were conducting a survey to find out how many of your fellow students approved of the state providing free community college tuition, what method of sampling would you use and why?

Identify the sampling method (simple random sampling, systematic sampling, convenience sampling, or stratified sampling) in the following studies    a. You split the population into faculty and students and then choose a random sample from each.     b. You assign each member of the population a number and choose the sample using a computer program that randomly picks numbers.                       c. You ask every 3rd person who walks into the store to complete a survey.

determine which sampling method was used (simple random, cluster, convenience, stratified, systematic), and brieflystate how you were able to identify the type of sampling being used   A student surveys 30 people who happen to be on campus at 1:00 pm on a Monday.

Identify the sampling techniques used in each scenario. a candidate for the local school board surveyed parents picking up their children from the public school on three school days in the last month.