I could buy a flower seed packet from grocery outlet. I open the packet finding 4 sunflower seeds. i plant 2 sunflower seeds in 2 pots of soil and plant the other 2 sunflower seeds in 2 pots of sand. I also will water each plant every day and ensure each plant has the same amount of sunlight. Then I can measure the height of the sunflowers after one month.

Question

Where in your experiment would random selection occur? true or false.

Random selection occurs when I see 4 sunflower seeds inside the flower packet.

Answer 1

False.

In your experiment, random selection would occur when you choose which seeds to plant in the soil and which to plant in the sand. However, since you have only 4 seeds and you are specifically assigning 2 to each condition (soil and sand), random selection isn’t technically happening. For true random selection, you would need to use a method to randomly decide which seeds to plant in which conditions (e.g., a random number generator or drawing names). Simply counting the seeds or noting their presence does not involve random selection.