Edexcel S3 2014 June — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2014
SessionJune
TopicCombinations & Selection

  1. (a) Explain what you understand by a random sample from a finite population.
    (b) Give an example of a situation when it is not possible to take a random sample.
A college lecturer specialising in shoe design wants to change the way in which she organises practical work. She decides to gather ideas from her 75 students. She plans to give a questionnaire to a random sample of 8 of these students.
(c) (i) Describe the sampling frame that she should use.
(ii) Explain in detail how she should use a table of random numbers to obtain her sample.