A Statistics Teacher Wants to Know How Students in Her

Essay

A statistics teacher wants to know how students in her school feel about mathematics courses. She decides to administer a
survey to a random sample of students taking a mathematics course. She has several sampling plans to choose from.
a. There are four ranks of students taking the class: freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Randomly select 15 students
from each class rank.
b. Randomly select ten math class sections and survey every student in each of those sections.
c. Each student has a nine-digit student number. Randomly choose 60 different nine-digit numbers and survey the students
that correspond to those numbers.
d. Randomly select a number from 1 to 5. Using the class roster, start at that number, then select every fifth student from the
list after that.
-Listed below are the names of 20 students who are juniors. Use the random numbers listed
below to select five of them to be in your sample. Clearly explain your method. $\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|}\hline \text { Adam } & \text { Chris } & \text { Dave } & \text { Deirdre } & \text { Dick } \\\hline \text { Ellen } & \text { Eric } & \text { Joan } & \text { John } & \text { Judi } \\\hline \text { Joy } & \text { Kenny } & \text { Laura } & \text { Mary } & \text { Paul } \\\hline \text { Peter } & \text { Rachel } & \text { Rob } & \text { Sara } & \text { Stacey } \\\hline\end{array}$

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