Identify the kind of sample that is described. A cell phone company wants to draw a sample of 600 customers to gather opinions about potential new features on upcoming phone models. The company draws a random sample of 200 from customers with iPhones, a random sample of 100 from customers with LG phones, a random sample of 100 from customers with Samsung phones, and a random sample of 200 from customers with other phones. The sample is a (Choose one) simple random stratified systematic voluntary response convenience cluster sample.

The P&G marketing team has created two potential slogans for the new Smile toothpaste. The uplifting slogan is, “Smile when you buy Smile!”. The serious slogan is, “Buy Smile to keep your smile.” Before deciding which slogan to use, the marketing team runs an experiment to see how individuals respond to these two slogans. The marketing team recruits 46 people to participate in this experiment, randomly assigning 24 participants to read the uplifting slogan and 22 participants to read the serious slogan. After reading the slogans, all participants rate how likely they are to buy the new Smile toothpaste on a scale from 1 (definitely will NOT purchase) to 10 (definitely will purchase). The group of participants who read the uplifting slogan has a mean score of 6.67, with a sum of squares of 323. The group of participants who read the serious slogan has a mean score of 4.77, with a sum of squares of 221. Do participants who read the uplifting slogan versus the serious slogan differ…

The Women’s Institutional Studies group at a Midwestern university wanted to compare the percentages of female faculty members in the various units on campus in Spring 2004.  Of particular interest were the percentages of female faculty in the College of Education and in the College of Business .  In a sample of 80 College of Education faculties, there were 36 females, and in a sample of 70 College of Business faculties, there were 15 females.  Based upon this sample information, which of the following is the 98% confidence interval for the difference in the actual percentages of female faculty between College of Education and College of Business ?   a. (0.075, 0.405).   b. (0.123, 0.357).   c. (-0.012, 0.252).   d. (0.058, 0.422).   e. (0.101, 0.379).

A gym manager is interested in whether the ‘beginner’ and ‘expert’ climbing walls (that were of the same height) at her facility are actually different from each other. To test this, she decides to look at the time it takes people to reach the top of both walls. She recruits 25 students and has them each climb both walls and looks for differences between the ‘beginner’ wall climbing times and the ‘expert’ wall climbing times.   Select one: a. single sample t-test b. one-way ANOVA c. paired samples t-test d. z-test e. factorial ANOVA  f. t-test independent means