Inferences and Predictions Answers

During her lunch hour, Shawna asked 40 students how many after-school clubs they joined. The list below shows the number of clubs that the students joined.2, 2, 3, 0, 3, 2, 4, 2, 1, 4, 3, 2, 4, 1, 0, 2, 1, 3, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 4, 1, 1, 0, 2, 3, 2, 0, 3, 2, 0, 1If this sample is representative of the student population of 360 students, about how many students in the school joined three clubs?

The football and soccer teams at Juan’s middle school are selling movie tickets. He wants to determine the average number of tickets sold at the school. First, he surveyed eight random players on the football team. Then, he surveyed every third athlete on the football and soccer team. Which sampling technique should produce a more representative sample?

At Brighton Middle School, Mr. Yule asked 50 randomly selected students from each grade level about their favorite subject, and 12 chose science. He used this data to draw the inference that about 25% of middle school students will indicate science is their favorite subject. If there are 200 students all together, did he make a reasonable inference?

Hamden city’s police department needs to choose whether to build a new addition to the police station or to buy new squad cars. Which sampling option might they choose to survey the community?

Students at Hampton Middle School sold T-shirts as a school fundraiser. Sylvie asked 12 random seventh-grade students how many T-shirts they sold for the fundraiser. The number of T-shirts each student sold is listed below.3, 4, 8, 5, 2, 5, 0, 5, 3, 4, 3, 7What is the mean of the data set rounded to the nearest tenth?

When Andrei surveyed 36 random seventh-grade students in the lunchroom, he found that 7 out of 9 would like to try or have already tried snorkeling. Using proportional reasoning, about how many of the 810 seventh-grade students in his school would like to snorkel?

The Hamden board of education wants to know how the community feels about building a new media center for the middle school. They called every tenth person on the registration list of 7,300 voters until they had called a total of 40 voters. Which of the following are true of the sample of 40 voters? Check all that apply.

While at summer camp, Mike asked a random camper from each of the 12 cabins how many siblings he or she had. The results below display the responses.3, 2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 1If there are 48 campers altogether, use Mike’s data to infer the mean of the population. What is the mean number of siblings for the population rounded to the nearest unit?

The manager of a popular restaurant wants to know what types of vegetarian dishes people prefer to eat. Which sample would provide the most accurate data?

Principal Phillipi used a random sample of 20 student records to determine how far, in miles, students live from the school. The results are shown below.3, 4, 5, 3, 4,5, 6, 5, 4, 3,2, 3, 4, 5, 6,4, 8, 4, 3, 2 What is the mean distance that his students live from the school, rounded to the nearest tenth?