Suppose You Want to Find Out What Percentage of Students

question 35

Essay

Suppose you want to find out what percentage of students at your university would pay extra fees for the use of a new recreation center, and you want a simple random sample of 100 students.Suppose you go to the current recreation center and ask every 10th student who comes in the door to participate in your survey, until you have 100 people.Does this method of sampling give you a simple random sample? Explain your answer.

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Definitions:

Die Brücke

German, “the bridge.” An early-20th-century German Expressionist art movement under the leadership of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The group thought of itself as the bridge between the old age and the new.

Der Blaue Reiter

German, “the blue rider.” An early-20th-century German Expressionist art movement founded by Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. The artists selected the whimsical name because of their mutual interest in the color blue and horses.

The Bauhaus

A German art and design school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, known for its revolutionary approach to integrating art, design, and craftsmanship, with a focus on functionality and simplicity.

Orphism

A form of Cubism developed by the French painter Robert Delaunay in which color plays an important role.