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Question 1
There are 800 students in Sarah’s school.
Sarah selects 50 students at random; 30 of these 50 students eat carrots.
Work out an estimate for the number of students in Sarah’s school who eat carrots.

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(2 marks)

Question 2
The table shows information about the population of a town.

Emily takes a random sample of 90 people from the town; 40 of these people have not been to their
doctor in the last year.

Work out an estimate for the number of people in the town who have not been to their doctor in
the last year.

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(2 marks)
Question 3
Each student at a college is going to be given a notebook.

The colour of each notebook will be red or blue or green or orange.

Bill takes a sample of 50 of the students at the college.

He asks each of these students what colour of notebook they want.

The table gives Bill’s results.

There are 3000 students at the college.

Work out how many red notebooks Bill should buy.

.......................... notebooks

(2 marks)
SAMPLING (MARK SCHEME)
Question 1
480

Question 2
"7062 OR 7060 OR 7063"

Question 3
1080 notebooks