Which of the following is an advantage of using systematic random sampling?
Executive leadership wants to survey employees at a grocery store that is open 24 hours a day. They are interested in getting surveys from people from every job title (cashier, stocker, manager, etc.) Which of the following uses systematic random sampling?
A paper company wants to survey its employees about a new policy on sales commissions. Which of the following would result in a stratified random sample?
A teacher has 36 students who were randomly assigned to 6 rows of 6 desks. She wants to survey the students about the homework policy. Which of the following uses cluster sampling?
A band director is trying to decide what music to play for the halftime show. She surveys the marching band students to get their opinions about which music they would prefer. Which of the following sampling techniques would provide a stratified random sample that would accurately represent the students’ opinions?
Which of the following is an advantage of using stratified random sampling?
Which of the following statements is true about cluster sampling?
A sandwich shop owner wants to survey customers about new menu options. To get the sample, the owner surveys the 4th customer of the day (with 4 being a randomly chosen value), then surveys every 10th customer after that. Which sampling method was used?
A band director is trying to decide what music to play for the halftime show. To get a sample, the director divides the band into groups based on their grade (freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors). Then she randomly chooses a group and surveys every member of the chosen group. Which sampling method was used?
Education researchers are interested in the workload expectations of freshmen at a local university. Since all of the freshmen are randomly placed into freshman seminar classes, the researchers randomly select 3 freshman seminar classes and survey all of the students within those classes. Which sampling method was used?
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