Activity

Sampling and Sampling Distribution

I. Determine whether the underlined value is a parameter or a statistic.

_______ 1) According in a national survey on cigarette addiction, 10% of respondents smoke at least
5 cigarettes a day within the past 3 months.
_______ 2) A study of 6, 076 adults who use public toilets in Metro Manila found that 12% of them did
not wash their hands before leaving the toilet.
_______ 3) An interview conducted with 100 females that are at least 20 years old in Metro Manila
reveals that 20% of them know the minimum age requirement for a presidential candidate.

II. Identify the population, sample, parameter and statistic in the following situations.

1) The mean income of all subscribers to a particular magazine is Php 26,000. Drawing a random
sample of 20 subscribers, it is found that their mean income is Php 27,300. Identify the:
(a) population: all subscribers to the particular magazine
(b) sample: 20 randomly selected subscribers
(c) parameter: Php 26,000
(d) statistic: Php 27,300

2) The average GPA for all female volleyball players in a particular college is 2.8, and their mean
height is 182cm.
(a) population: __________________________________
(b) sample: __________________________________
(c) parameter: __________________________________
(d) statistic: __________________________________

3) In a study about the average daily sleeping time of 464 SHS students, it is found that 75% of them
sleep on an average of five hours a day .
(a) population: __________________________________
(b) sample: __________________________________
(c) parameter: __________________________________
(d) statistic: __________________________________

III. Identify which sampling method is applied in the following situations.

________________1) Select three students from a class to receive ice cream by putting all the
students' names in a hat and picking out three names randomly.

________________2) Select three female students and three male students to receive ice cream by
putting all the men's names in one hat and all the women’s names in a different hat and picking out
three names from each hat.

________________3) In Fall 1995, the BBC in Britain requested viewers to call the network and
indicate their favorite poem.
________________4) In order to estimate the percentage of defects in a recent manufacturing batch,
a quality control manager selects every 10th product that comes off the assembly line starting with the
5th until he obtain a sample of 75 products.

________________5) A farmer divides his farm into 10 parts. He randomly selects 4 parts and
sample all of the plants within the parts in order to yield of his farm.

________________ 6) The teacher randomly selects 20 boys and 15 girls from a batch of learners to
be members of a group that will go to a field trip.

________________ 7) The people in a certain seminar are all members of two of five groups are
asked what they think about the president.

________________ 8) A barangay health worker asks every four house in the village for the ages of
the children living in those households.

________________ 9) A psychologist asks his patient, who suffers from depression, whether he
knows other people with the same condition, so he can include them in his study

________________ 10) A brand manager of a toothpaste asks ten dentists that have clinic closest to
his office whether they use a particular brand of toothpaste.