Question

The owner of a large company is conducting a survey about job satisfaction, including questions about salary, hours, stress, and other conditions. There are about eight hundred employees in the company, including one hundred executive positions, six hundred fifty middle-management positions, and fifty custodial positions. The owner wants to include about ten percent of his employees in the survey sample.

Identify a sampling method that would lead to a representative sample for the survey. Explain why it would be a good choice and give details about the process.

Answer 1

@xapproachesinfinity sorry i keep asking you to help but i dont get this stuff at all

Answer 2

@DawnStar53 @RahulSeth @laura*

Answer 3

i will give a medal!!!

Answer 4

@Ria23

Answer 5

800 employees want to sample 10%
Doing that will give yhu a sample size of about 80

Answer 6

I'm pretty sure you would have to add all of the numbers up, and then divide by 10%.

Answer 7

thank you @Ria23
how did you get that?

Answer 8

Yhu have 800 employees total and yhu want the number as a whole population.
"The owner wants to include about ten percent of his employees in the survey sample."
take the 800 and times it by 10%
Do yhu know how to multiply by percents?

Answer 9

yes thank you i think i get how to do this!

Answer 10

no...that isnt how you do it...

Answer 11

Yhur welcome.
Just make sure yhu do that for the other employees. That's how yhu'll find yhur total answer.

Answer 12

The 800 is not yhur actual answer, yhu have to do it for the different branches of workers.

Answer 13

you have to find 10% of each : executives, middle management, and custodial
then add them up separately
this a better way because then he will have a more generl view of everyone's opinions

Answer 14

okay

Answer 15

Lol, yea, I explained it kind of consing, but that's what yhu do.

Answer 16

okay thanks!

Answer 17

so
0.1 x 100 + 0.1 x 650 + 0.1 x 50

Answer 18

= 10 + 65+5=80

Answer 19

You got your answer @panic!at!the!disco1! ?