Suppose you are the president of the student government. You wish to conduct a survey to determine the student body's opinion regarding student services. The administration provides you with a list of the names and phone numbers of 5,412 registered student. Discuss the procedure you would follow to obtain a systematic random sample of 100 students.

A coach is interested in how many slam dunks the average college freshman at his university can do. Ten volunteers from the senior class step forward. After observing their performance, the coach concluded that college seniors can do an average of 10 slam dunks in a row without missing. what is the sample? what is the population?

A poll in Canada states that 67% of all respondents favor imposing the death penalty. The poll was considered accurate within 4.7 percentage points 95% of the time. How large was the sample size? Round up to the nearest whole number.

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Sony wants to administer a satisfaction survey to its current customers. Using their customer database, the company randomly selects 90 customers and asks them about their level of satisfaction with the company. What type of sampling is used? O A. Systematic O B. Stratified O C. Convenience O D. Simple random O E. Cluster

A political campaign wants to estimate the number of adult residents who voted in the last city election. Answer the following. (a) Which of the following surveys probably would best represent the entire adult population of the city? 50 senior residents are randomly selected; 42 voted in the last election. 50 adult residents are randomly selected from the city; 25 voted in the last election. 50 business owners are randomly selected; 38 voted in the last election. (b) There are 16,800 adults who live in the city. Using your answer from part (a), estimate the number of adults who voted in the last city election. adults

Explain in detail RANDOM ASSIGNMENT OF SUBJECTS.

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?

Of a graduate school that has 2000 business majors, 500 finance majors and 300 biology majors, a researcher starts at the least-numbered student ID and continues until she has collected the names of 200 business students, 50 finance students and 30 biology students. What type of sampling technique does this represent? Explain your reasoning.