Question

8.4 Sampling on Campus. You would like to start a club for psychology majors on campus, and you are interested in finding out what proportion of psychology majors would join. The dues would be $35 and used to pay for speakers to come to campus. You ask five psychology majors from your senior psychology honors seminar whether they would be interested in joining this club and find that four of the five students questioned are interested. Is this sampling method biased, and if so, what is the likely direction of bias

Answer 1

To convert the measurements of metric system into another units of metric system we have to either multiply it by 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, etc or divide by 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, etc.

If we have to convert bigger unit into smaller unit then we have to multiply the unit by the multiples of 10, then the decimal point is shifted to right by 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 , etc. places.

For example, 1.2 kg is converted into g so we have to multiply it by 1000, so decimal point is shifted to right by 3 places, i.e.,

1.2 x 1000 = 1200 g

If we have to convert smaller unit into bigger unit then we have to divide the unit by the multiples of 10, then the decimal point is shifted to left by 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 , etc. places.

For example, 12 cm is converted into m so we have to divide it by 100, so decimal point is shifted to left by 2 places, i.e.,

12 / 100 = 0.12 m

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