Edexcel S3 — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
TopicCombinations & Selection

  1. A Veterinary Surgeon wishes to survey a stratified sample of size 100 from those people who have pets registered at her surgery. The list below shows the strata to be used and the number in each group.
  • people who own just dogs - 165 ,
  • people who own just cats - 140 ,
  • people who own just small mammals - 105,
  • others, including those who own more than one type of pet - 90 .
    1. Find how many members of each group should be included in the sample.
    2. Give two advantages of using stratified sampling.