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Mod 6
Mod 6
Name:______________________________________Score:_________________
Section:_____________________________________Date:__________________
Activity
Sampling Theory
_______________2. The speed of every fifth car passing a police speed trap.
A survey of 1500 Filipino households found that 48% of the households own a computer.
6. Population: _______________
7. Sample: _______________
The average weight of every sixth person entering the mall within a 3-hour period was 56 kilos.
8. Population: _______________
9. Sample: _______________
An education official wants to estimate the proportion of adults aged 18 or older who had read at
least one book during the previous year. A random sample of 1006 adults aged 18 or older is
obtained, and 835 of those adults had read at least one book during the previous year.
9. Parameter: _______________
10. Statistic: _______________
____________________18. The psychologist assigns each student a number from 0001 to 4060 and
uses a computer to randomly generate a list of 30 numbers to select the students for the sample.
____________________19. Students are listed by the neighborhood they live in. The psychologist
randomly selects six neighborhoods and then randomly selects five students from each one.