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Module 6

Name:______________________________________Score:_________________

Section:_____________________________________Date:__________________

Activity
Sampling Theory

I. Determine whether the data set is a population or a sample.

_______________1. The age of each provincial governor in the Philippines.

_______________2. The speed of every fifth car passing a police speed trap.

_______________3. The annual salary for each employee at a company.

_______________4. A group of patients in a hospital who are given a particular treatment.


_______________5. The list of all the world leaders.

II. Identify the population and the sample:

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: _______________

III. Identify the parameter and statistic in the following:

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: _______________

The average annual salary of accountants from 35 different companies is P268,000.

11. Parameter: _______________


12. Statistic: _______________
IV. Identify the sampling method used in the following:
____________________13. Every fifth person boarding a plane is searched thoroughly.
____________________14. At a local community College, five math classes are randomly selected
out of 20 and all of the students from each class are interviewed.
____________________15. A researcher randomly selects and interviews fifty male and fifty female
teachers.
____________________16. A researcher for an airline interviews all of the passengers on five
randomly selected flights.
A psychologist is studying the sleep patterns of the 4060 students at her university. She decides to
start by asking a random sample of 30 students how many hours of sleep they get weekday nights.
Identify the type of sample in each of the following survey methods.
____________________ 17. The psychologist assigns each student a number from 1 to 4060. She
selects the sample by randomly choosing one of the first 132 numbers and every 132nd number
thereafter.

____________________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.

____________________20. An equal proportion of students are randomly selected from each


discipline.

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