Determine whether each situation would produce a random sample. Write yes or no and

Determine whether each situation would produce a random sample. Write yes or no and explain your answer. 1. the government sending a tax survey to everyone whose social security number ends in a particular digit

surveying college students in the honors program to determine the average time students at the college study each day

For Exercises 35, find the margin of sampling error to the nearest percent. 3. p = 72%, n = 100

p = 31%, n = 500

In a survey of 350 randomly selected homeowners, 54% stated that they are planning a major home improvement project in the next six months

For Exercises 6 and 7, use the following information. A survey found that 57% of consumers said they will not have any debt from holiday spending. Suppose the survey had a margin of error of 3%. 6. What does the 3% indicate about the results?

How many people were surveyed?

Determine whether each situation would produce a random sample. Write yes or no and explain your answer. 8. pointing with your pencil at a class list with your eyes closed as a way to find a sample of students in your class

putting the names of all seniors in a hat, then drawing names from the hat to select a sample of seniors

asking every twentieth person on a list of registered voters to determine which political candidate is favored

finding the heights of all the boys on the varsity basketball team to determine the average height of all the boys in your school

For Exercises 1221, find the margin of sampling error to the nearest percent. 12. p = 81%, n = 100

p = 16%, n = 400

p = 54%, n = 500

p = 48%, n = 1000

p = 33%, n = 1000

p = 67%, n = 1500

A poll asked people to name the most serious problem facing the country. Forty-six percent of the 800 randomly selected people said crime

In a recent survey, 431 full-time employees were asked if the Internet has made them more or less productive at work. 27% said it made them more productive.

Three hundred sixty-seven of 425 high school students said pizza was their favorite food in the school cafeteria.

Nine hundred thirty-four of 2150 subscribers to a particular newspaper said their favorite sport was football.

According to a recent poll, 33% of shoppers planned to spend $1000 or more during a holiday season. The margin of error was 3%. How many people were surveyed?

One hundred people were asked whether they would vote for Candidate A or Candidate B in an upcoming election. How many said Candidate A if the margin of error was 9.6%?

In a recent poll, 83% of the 1020 people surveyed said they supported raising the minimum wage. What was the margin of error?

In a recent poll, 61% of the 1010 people surveyed said they considered being a physician to be a very prestigious occupation. What was the margin of error?

Give examples of a biased sample and an unbiased sample. Explain your reasoning.

Explain what happens to the margin of sampling error when the size of the sample n increases. Why does this happen?

Use the information on page 742 to explain how surveys are used in marketing. Find the margin of error for those who spend $249 or less if 807 mothers were surveyed. Explain what this margin of error means.

In rectangle ABCD, what is x + y in terms of z? A 90 + z B 190 - z C 180 + z D 270 - z

If x y -2 + y -1 = y -2 , then the value of x cannot equal which of the following? F -1 G 0 H 1 J 2

A student guesses at all 5 questions on a true-false quiz. Find each probability. (Lesson 12-8) 31. P(all 5 correct)

P(exactly 4 correct)

P(at least 3 correct)

A set of 250 data values is normally distributed with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 5.5. (Lesson 12-7) 34. What percent of the data lies between 39 and 61?

What is the probability that a data value selected at random is greater than 39?