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1. A high school newspaper surveyed 150 local businesses that were randomly chosen from the phone book. 73 businesses returned the questionnaire. 2. Inspectors randomly chose 40 envelopes that were stuffed and sealed by a machine from a batch of 1000 envelopes to check if they were completely sealed. 3. An educator conducted an experiment where she randomly assigned high school students to either use computer software or a textbook to learn math, and compared their pre-test and post-test math scores to see which was more effective.

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Practice Day 6 Name - Collecting Data Date

1. A high school newspaper surveyed 150 local businesses that were randomly chosen from the phone book. 73 businesses returned the questionnaire. 2. Inspectors randomly chose 40 envelopes that were stuffed and sealed by a machine from a batch of 1000 envelopes to check if they were completely sealed. 3. An educator conducted an experiment where she randomly assigned high school students to either use computer software or a textbook to learn math, and compared their pre-test and post-test math scores to see which was more effective.

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Practice Day 6

Name___________________________
Collecting Data
Date_____________
Identify the population and the sample.
1. A high schools student newspaper plans to survey local businesses about the importance of
students as customers. From telephone book listings, the newspaper staff chooses 150
businesses at random. Of these, 73 return the questionnaire mailed by the staff.
2. A large retailer prepares its customers monthly credit card bills using an automatic machine
that folds the bills, stuffs them into envelopes, and seals the envelopes for mailing. Are the
envelopes completely sealed? Inspectors choose 40 envelopes from the 1000 stuffed each
hour for visual inspection.
Identify if the following situations are an observational study or an experiment. Justify.
3. An educator wants to compare the effectiveness of computer software for teaching
mathematics with that of a textbook presentation. She gives a math pretest to each of a
group of high school juniors, then randomly divides them into two groups. One group uses
the computer, and the other studies the text. At the end of the year, she tests all the
students again and compares the increase in math test scores in the two groups.
4. A University of Helsinki study wanted to determine if chocolate consumption during
pregnancy had an effect on infant temperament at age 6 months. Researchers began by
asking 305 healthy pregnant women to report their chocolate consumption. Six months
after birth, the researchers asked mothers to rate their infants temperament, including
smiling, laughing, and fear.

Determine whether each situation would produce a random unbiased sample.


Explain your answer.
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