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General Information

Related Standards: MAFS.7.SP.1.1
Reporting Category: Statistics & Probability
Type: MC: Multiple Choice
Difficulty: N/A
Question:

A company has three sales departments (local, regional, and national) at each of several locations across the United States. Each local sales department has 120 employees. The company wants to survey its employees to determine the most effective sales method.

Which sample should the company use to arrive at the most reliable conclusion?

 

Answer Options:

A. 24 employees from one sales department at one location

B. 24 employees from one sales department at each location

C. 24 employees from each sales department at one location

D. 24 employees from each sales department at each location

Answer Key:
D

Aligned Standards

Code Description
MAFS.7.SP.1.1: Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.


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