Sampling Technique Scenarios

Directions: For each question below, please select the technique that most closely matches the

description.

You work for a company as a quality control specialist. You want to check the current production of

products for defects. At the end of the day, you assign a number to each item that was produced. You

randomly choose $20$ numbers and inspect the items that correspond to the randomly chosen numbers.

You work for a company as a quality control specialist. You want to check the current production of

products for defects. You go down to the factory floor assembly line and randomly choose the first item to

inspect. You then inspect every $15$th item that comes off the assembly lines until you have inspected $20$

items.

You work for the school newspaper. You want to survey the students for their opinions about a recent

issue. During the hour that you have assigned to work on the newspaper, you walk around the school

interviewing any students that are available.

You work for a company as a quality control specialist. You want to check the current production of

products for defects. You locate the finished products for the day and inspect the first $20$ items you happen

to see.

There are $35$ rides at a large theme park, and a team of journalists wants to interview some customers.

The journalists randomly chooses $5$ of the rides and interview all of the people exiting those rides.