Question

The owner of an amusement park wants to find out which ride was the favorite among the park’s visitors on a given Saturday. On that day, there were 5,500 visitors. Help the manager choose which sample size is best. Arrange the samples starting with the greatest variation from the expected value and ending with the least variation.

sample A:
a sample
of 10 people

sample C:
a sample
of 90 people

sample B:
a sample
of 55 people

sample D:
a sample
of 200 people

Answer 1

what do you think it is?

Answer 2

I don't really know...

Answer 3

That's why I'm asking, so someone could help me figure it out. Math isn't my best subject...

Answer 4

ok what answer choices can u take out?

Answer 5

Well, the question is asking me to sort them.

Answer 6

Hey there!

Answer 7

Arrange the samples starting with the greatest variation from the expected value and ending with the least variation. Is what the question is asking.

Answer 8

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @AZ
Hey there!
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Hi!

Answer 9

We're doing a survey to find out what the best ride was at an amusement park

If I survey only ONE person, and he tells me his favorite ride. Will that give me a good idea of what the favorite ride was for all the 5500 people who came to the amusement park?

Answer 10

Umm, yes.

Answer 11

Wait no.

Answer 12

Are you sure?

Let me use a different example

I'm asking everyone their favorite color. Your favorite color is, let's say blue. But everyone in your family loves green.

If I only ask you, and you tell me blue.

Answer 13

Exactly!

Answer 14

Because that was only one person out of all of 5,500 visitors.

Answer 15

It's not going to be very helpful if we only ask one person. You would say that it's not a very good sample

Answer 16

Exactly! You're on the right track now

Answer 17

So we want to have a larger sample so that way our survey is MORE accurate

Answer 18

Yeah, ok I get it!

Answer 19

So does that mean it should be from greatest to least sense I should ask more visitors instead of less?

Answer 20

Like,
Sample D 200
Sample C 90
Sample B 55
Sample A 10

Answer 21

The larger the sample size is the lower the variance is

Answer 22

So since they want us to order it from greatest variation to least variation

so we have to go from least to greatest in terms of sample size

Answer 23

Oh! Ok thank you so much for your help!

Answer 24

I'm glad I could be of help!!

Answer 25

Have a great day! Bye!

Answer 26

You too!

Answer 27

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @AZ
I'm glad I could be of help!!
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very very good job - like always - congrats !!!

Answer 28

Thank you :)