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Chapter 1: Q.31 (page 52)
Both groups that performed the study concluded that the software works. Is this accurate?
No, it is not accurate both investigations do not come to the same conclusion that the programs works.
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List some practical difficulties involved in getting accurate results from a telephone survey.
The instructor takes her sample by gathering data on five randomly selected students from each Lake Tahoe Community College math class. The type of sampling she used is
a. cluster sampling
b. stratified sampling
c. simple random sampling
d. convenience sampling
Name the sampling method used in each of the following situations:
a. A woman in the airport is handing out questionnaires to travelers asking them to evaluate the airport’s service. She does not ask travelers who are hurrying through the airport with their hands full of luggage, but instead asks all travelers who are sitting near gates and not taking naps while they wait.
b. A teacher wants to know if her students are doing homework, so she randomly selects rows two and five and then calls on all students in row two and all students in row five to present the solutions to homework problems to the class.
c. The marketing manager for an electronics chain store wants information about the ages of its customers. Over the next two weeks, at each store location, randomly selected customers are given questionnaires to fill out asking for information about age, as well as about other variables of interest.
d. The librarian at a public library wants to determine what proportion of the library users are children. The librarian has a tally sheet on which she marks whether books are checked out by an adult or a child. She records this data for every fourth patron who checks out books.
e. A political party wants to know the reaction of voters to a debate between the candidates. The day after the debate, the party’s polling staff calls randomly selected phone numbers. If a registered voter answers the phone or is available to come to the phone, that registered voter is asked whom he or she intends to vote for and whether the debate changed his or her opinion of the candidates.
1.15 From Table 1.13, find the percentage of rainfall that is between 6.99 and 13.05 inches.
The graph in Figure shows the number of complaints for six different airlines as reported to the US Department of Transportation in February . Alaska, Pinnacle, and Airtran Airlines have far fewer complaints reported than American, Delta, and United. Can we conclude that American, Delta, and United are the worst airline carriers since they have the most complaints?
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