Grade 6 Math: Population and Sample
Explore the concepts of population and sample with this Grade 6 math worksheet. Understand how to identify and differentiate between populations and samples in various scenarios.
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions to identify populations and samples.
1. A researcher wants to study the average height of all students in a particular school. Which of the following represents the population?
A group of 50 students from the school
All students in the school
The average height of the principal
The tallest student in the school
2. A company wants to know the opinion of its customers about a new product. They survey 100 random customers. In this scenario, the 100 random customers represent what?
The entire population of customers
A sample of the customers
The product itself
The company's employees
3. A is the entire group of individuals or objects that a researcher wants to study.
4. A is a smaller, representative group chosen from a larger population.
5. If you want to know the favorite color of all students in your class, the would be all the students in your class.
6. Describe a situation where using a sample would be more practical than studying an entire population.
7. Explain why it is important for a sample to be representative of the population.
8. A population is always larger than a sample.
True
False
9. You can always get exact information about a population by studying a sample.
True
False
Match each term with its definition.
10. Population
a. A subset of the whole group
11. Sample
b. The entire group being studied
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