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Garden Market: Whose Answers Count?

Evaluate samples, identify populations, and judge survey conclusions as a school garden club plans its farmers market stand.

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Aligned to7.SP.A.1

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 7
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify the population and sample in garden market investigations.
  • Students evaluate whether sampling methods are likely to represent a population.
  • Students explain why random samples support estimates but do not guarantee exact population results.

How to use

Use after introducing populations and samples. Have students complete the sampling decisions independently, then discuss how selection methods affect conclusions.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

7.SP.A.1

Understand that a sample can tell about a population, and that random samples tend to represent the population well.

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Garden Market: Whose Answers Count?

Use samples to make informed decisions about the club’s produce stand.

Identify the Groups

Read each investigation carefully. Distinguish the entire group of interest from the smaller group studied.

1.
The school garden club wants to learn which vegetables all shoppers at Saturday’s farmers market would consider buying. Members survey 36 shoppers. What is the population of interest?
  • A. All members of the school garden club.
  • B. The 36 shoppers who answer the survey.
  • C. Only shoppers who buy the club’s vegetables.
  • D. All shoppers at Saturday’s farmers market.
2.
For a separate investigation, the club has a complete list of 240 customers who placed produce orders this month. A computer randomly selects 45 different customers from that list. All 45 answer a question about pickup times.

How many customers are in the sample?   customers

3.
The club wants to check the condition of all 180 squash in its harvest. Match each description to its statistical role.
  1. All 180 squash in the harvest.
  2. The 24 randomly selected squash that members inspect.
  3. An inspection of every one of the 180 squash.
  1. A. A sample: the smaller group actually studied.
  2. B. The population: the entire group of interest.
  3. C. A census: studying every member of the population.

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