Edexcel S3 2006 January — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2006
SessionJanuary
TopicCombinations & Selection

  1. A school has 15 classes and a sixth form. In each class there are 30 students. In the sixth form there are 150 students. There are equal numbers of boys and girls in each class. There are equal numbers of boys and girls in the sixth form. The head teacher wishes to obtain the opinions of the students about school uniforms.
Explain how the head teacher would take a stratified sample of size 40.
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