OCR AS Pure 2017 Specimen — Question 8

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleAS Pure (AS Pure Mathematics)
Year2017
SessionSpecimen
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeUsing random number tables/generators

8 A club secretary wishes to survey a sample of members of his club. He uses all members present at a particular meeting as his sample.
  1. Explain why this sample is likely to be biased. Later the secretary decides to choose a random sample of members.
    The club has 253 members and the secretary numbers the members from 1 to 253 . He then generates random 3-digit numbers on his calculator. The first six random numbers generated are 156, 965, 248, 156, 073 and 181. The secretary uses each number, where possible, as the number of a member in the sample.
  2. Find possible numbers for the first four members in the sample.