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5.015 Sampling methods

Interactive practice questions

Drawing out the winning ticket number in a lottery is an example of:

Random Sampling

A

Stratified Sampling

B

Systematic Sampling

C
Easy
< 1min

Choosing every $5$5th person on the class roll to take part in a survey is an example of:

Easy
< 1min

Choosing $10%$10% of the students in each year for Years 7-12 is an example of:

Easy
< 1min

Out of $2160$2160 students in a school, $216$216 were chosen at random and asked their favourite colour out of red, blue and yellow with $99$99 choosing red, $63$63 blue and $54$54 yellow.

Medium
2min
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Outcomes

3.4.3

understand the purpose of sampling to provide an estimate of population values when a census is not used

3.4.4

investigate the different kinds of samples, for example, systematic samples, self-selected samples, simple random samples

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