1.student asks five people in the library whether they will vote in the upcoming election. 2.A large university uses a computer program to select a sample of 50 freshmen to answer a questionnaire. 3.On an assembly line producing granola bars the quality control engineer selects every 1000th produce to test for flaws.

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Section11.4: Collecting Data
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  1. Does the sampling method described produce a random sample from the implied population?

1.student asks five people in the library whether they will vote in the upcoming election.

2.A large university uses a computer program to select a sample of 50 freshmen to answer a questionnaire.

3.On an assembly line producing granola bars the quality control engineer selects every 1000th produce to test for flaws.

4.A large university sends a questionnaire to all freshmen.

5.In Monopoly a pair of dice is thrown to determine how many spaces to move.

 

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