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What is random number table?

Important Questions on Statistics

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Dakarai is comparing two books: A and B. He predicts that book A has longer words than book B. Dakaria decides to choose a page from each book as a sample. He will count the length of every word on the page. Do you think the sample is large enough to be sure that he has the correct answer to his prediction?

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Ben is studying the average height of students who attend his school. Choose from convenience, simple random, systematic, stratified or quota to classify each of the following sampling techniques that Ben might use.
A random name is chosen. Starting with that student, every 50th student is chosen until 80 students are included in the sample.
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The logic of induction is closely associated with the:
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Sofia is investigating birthdays of young people. She predicts that birthdays in autumn are more common than birthdays in other seasons.

Sofia displays her results in a table as shown.

Season Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Frequency 200 170 230 220

What is the size of sample?

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Ben is studying the average height of students who attend his school. Choose from convenience, simple random, systematic, stratified or quota to classify each of the following sampling techniques that Ben might use.
A completely random method is used to select 100 students. Each student has the same probability of being chosen at any stage of the sampling process.
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In a recent survey, conducted among 2000 randomly selected graduates in a district, 367 of them are IAS aspirants.Calculate the proportion of IAS aspirants among the graduates in the district.

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Suppose you have a 4L container and a 9L container. If you had access to a source of running water, explain how you could measure out exactly 6L of water. Question Image

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We want a sample of size n = 30 to be drawn from a population of size N = 8,000 which is divided into three strata of size, N1 = 4,000, N2 = 2,400 and N3 = 1,600. Adopting proportional allocation, the sample sizes for the respective strata are:
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Ben is studying the average height of students who attend his school. Choose from convenience, simple random, systematic, stratified or quota to classify each of the following sampling techniques that Ben might use.
The population of the school consists of 70%mathematicians and 30% non-mathematicians. Seven mathematicians and three non-mathematicians are chosen from each grade.
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Determine the type of sampling technique used in each case. Choose from convenience, simple random, systematic, stratified or quota sample.
The mathematics club uses a computer generate 50 random numbers and then picks students whose names correspond to the numbers.
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 Determine the type of sampling technique used in each case. Choose from convenience, simple random, systematic, stratified or quota sample.

A local newspaper selects to interview people at the seaside. It specifies that 90% of those interviewed must be local residents and 10% must be tourists.

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Dakarai is comparing two books: A and B. He predicts that book A has longer words than book B. Dakaria decides to choose a page from each book as a sample. He will count the length of every word on the page. How could he choose the page each time?

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A researcher divides the population into certain groups and fixes the size of the sample from each group. This is called:
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Ben is studying the average height of students who attend his school. Choose from convenience, simple random, systematic, stratified or quota to classify each of the following sampling techniques that Ben might use.
A sample of 100 students is taken by organising the students' names by classification (freshman, sophomore, junior or senior), and then selecting 25 students from each classification.
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Represent the union of two sets by Venn diagram for each of the following.

X={x | x is a prime number between 80 and 100}

Y={y | y is an odd number between 90 and 100}

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A researcher wants to study the relationship of family size to income. He classifies his population into different income slabs and then takes a random sample from each slab in order. Which technique of sampling is he working with?
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 Determine the type of sampling technique used in each case. Choose from convenience, simple random, systematic, stratified or quota sample.
A DJ chooses every fourth song on a playlist.