Q2:
Three different toys are stored in a warehouse. There are 15 000 toys in total and the number of each is shown in the table.
Kinds of Stones | Bears | Dolls | Cars |
---|---|---|---|
Number of Stones | 2 000 | 6 000 | 7 000 |
A stratified sample of all the toys is taken and 420 cars are selected. Calculate the total number of toys in the sample.
Q3:
An experiment has been designed to investigate the alleged benefits of using a fabric softener. In the experiment the participants are divided into two groups: one group gets laundry washed using a fabric softener, while the other gets laundry washed without using any fabric softener. All of the participants laundry is washed over several weeks and none of the participants know how their laundry has been washed.
Which of the following is the type of the experiment?
Which of the following is the treatment variable?
Q4:
A teacher wanted the children in her class to have a random sample of coins for a lesson. She put nickels, quarters, and dimes into a bag, and the bag was passed around the class for each child to select a coin without looking in the bag. Why is this unlikely to produce a random sample of coins?
Q5:
A school principal was happy to announce that the number of late arrivals per day in the whole school was only five on average. Is this figure a sample statistic or a population characteristic?
Q6:
A student wants to research the amount of pocket money students in his middle school receive. Which of the following would be the best way to get a representative sample of the population?
Q7:
There are about 15 million registered voters in a state, and the government wants to know what proportion of them intends to vote in the next general election. In a survey of registered voters, 648 responded that they did intend to vote.
Which of the following is the population parameter?
Q8:
Which of the following is an outcome of a random experiment?
Q9:
An animal rescue center wants to find out if people in its town think more money should be spent on animal welfare. They plan to ask a random sample of their visitors and volunteers to fill in a questionnaire. Why would their sample not be representative of the town’s population?
Q10:
In probability, what is an experiment defined as?
Q11:
A teacher wanted the children in her class to have a random sample of coins for a lesson. She put nickels, quarters, and dimes into a bag and passed it around the class for each child to select a coin without looking inside.
Why is this unlikely to produce a random sample of coins?
Q12:
A fair coin is thrown randomly four times; it lands on heads every time.
Which of the following is true?
Q13:
The image shows a fair spinner.
Scarlett wants 5 random numbers from 1 to 5, so she spins the spinner 5 times. Her results are 3, 3, 5, 1, 3.
Which of the following statements about her results is true?
Q14:
Which of the following is a representative sample?
Q15:
Which of the following choices would define a random experiment?
Q16:
A drug company conducted a trial to find out if females aged 25–40 experienced an improvement in their migraine symptoms if they took a new drug. The people in the trial found that the number of migraines they experienced was halved.
Which of the following inferences would the company make from their results?
Q17:
A school principal wants to find out what the students think about the teaching quality in the school. Which of these samples is unbiased?
Q18:
A pharmaceutical company wants to find out if a new drug can delay the formation of white hair. They decide to carry out an experiment using a placebo.
Which of the following is the treatment variable in this experiment?
Many variables need to be controlled in order to make the experiment results valid. Which of the following variables does not need to be controlled?
Q19:
Is tossing a coin an experiment?
Q20:
A bag contains a total of 12 marbles; 4 are green and the rest are yellow. Madison randomly takes a marble from the bag, records its color, and does not replace it. She then repeats this process a second time. She draws the following tree diagram.
Write the values of the probabilities , , , and in the probability tree. Give your answers as unsimplified fractions.
Calculate the probability of choosing two marbles that are of the same color. Give your answer as a simplified fraction.
Calculate the probability of choosing one marble of each color. Give your answer as a simplified fraction.
Q21:
Is choosing a marble from a jar an experiment?