Question

Airline companies are interested in the consistency of the number of babies on each flight, so that they have adequate safety equipment. Suppose an airline conducts a survey. Over Thanksgiving weekend, it surveys 6 flights from Boston to Salt Lake City to determine the number of babies on the flights. It determines the amount of safety equipment needed by the result of that study.Select the things that were wrong with the way the survey was conducted. (Select all that apply.)__The survey uses systematic sampling.__Conducting the survey on a holiday weekend will not produce representative results.__Choosing 6 flights represents a stratified sample.__The survey was conducted using six similar flights.__The survey would not be a true representation of the entire population of air travelers.

Answer 1

1. Conducting the survey on a holiday weekend will not produce representative results.
2. The survey was conducted using six similar flights.
3. The survey would not be a true representation of the entire population of air travelers.

Explanation:

1. Travel conditions on a holiday are significantly altered to produce a result which could represent the normal conditions
2. Using the same departing and arriving point skews the result and does not account for duration of the flight
3. A small sample of people would travel to and from this destinations