Fair or biased sample worksheets

What is on this worksheet

Students read how a sample was chosen and decide whether it is fair or biased.

• Questions: Fair or biased only

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About sampling and predictions

Prediction problems give the size of a whole group, the size of a random sample and how many in the sample answered yes. Students scale up from the sample to predict the whole group. The group size is always a multiple of the sample size, so every answer is a whole number.

Fair or biased problems describe how a sample was chosen. A fair sample gives everyone in the group the same chance to be picked. A biased sample leaves some people out or lets them pick themselves. Each description is clear-cut, so there is exactly one answer.

Printing

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